[Vol. VII. No. 1.] INSECT LIFE [Issued September. 1894.] 
THE CRANBERRY GIRDLER 
(Crambus topiarius Zell.) 
By Samuel H. Scudder, Cambridge, Mass. 
Late in June of last year my attention was called by Mr. G. R. Briggs, 
of Plymouth, Mass., to the injury done by some insect to cranberry 
meadows under his care. He suspected that certain moths then flying 
in some numbers over the bogs might be connected with it. I visited 
the plantation on July 3 and September 23 and again this year on July 
Fig. I. — Crambus topiarius .• a, egg, with summit much enlarged: b, mature larva ; c, one of the 
abdominal segments of larva; d, chrysalis, e, nest of young larva in grass ; /, imago— all enlarged, 
(a and e after Felt; other figs, original.) 
18. On the first visit a number of moths were taken, nearly all of one 
species, which was later determined for me by Prof. C. H. Fernald as 
Crambus topiarius Zell. All the specimens of the moth then brought 
home alive for breeding proved to be males, but on my visit this year 
I procured some females, which readily and at once laid in confinement. 
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