APPLE PESTS 
and sprayed for codling moth and other 
pests will not be unduly troubled. 
S. A. BEACH, 
Ames, Ia. 
Reference.—lIllinois Experiment Station 
Bulletin No. 98. 
CURTIS SCALE. 
Scale, this section. 
Ermine Moth 
Yponomentidae 
Small moths with snowy white, black 
dotted front wings. The hind wings are 
gray or leaden in color. 
Imported to New York from Europe 
upon nursery stock. 
As the larvae feed upon the foliage 
they are easily controlled by arsenical 
sprays. 
They attack apple and cherry as well 
as a variety of other plants. 
See Huropean Fruit 
Geneva Technical Bulletin No. 24. 
EUROPEAN F'RuIT LECANIUM. See Prune. 
European Fruit Seale or Curtis Scale 
Aspidiotus Ostreaeformis 
The female is circular or broadly oval 
in outline, dark ashy gray in color with 
paler margin; sometimes the scale is 
nearly white. The -exuvia is central or 
nearly so, dark brown, usually naked and 
glossy. Diameter % of an inch. 
Life History 
The winter is passed by partly grown 
individuals which become mature early 
in the summer. The insect gives birth 
to living young which begin to appear 
soon after the maturity of the female. In 
this State they are apparently but one 
brooded. 
This scale has been recorded from a 
number of different plants, among them, 
the apple, pear, plum, peach, cherry, 
birch, poplar, horse chestnut, basswood, 
alder, haw, maple, aspen, oak, etc. It 
has been reported in this country from 
Maine, New York, New Jersey, Michi- 
gan, Ohio, Iowa, Idaho, California and 
several other states. In Maine it is most 
frequently found on large trees in old 
and neglected orchards, though we have 
records also of its occurrence on cur- 
rant bushes. Specimens the past season 
519 
Fig. 1. The European Fruit Scale on Branch 
of Apricot. (Hssig. Bulletin 2, Vent. Co. 
Hort. Com., Cal.) 
were received from Brunswick, Millvale, 
Buckfield and W. Auburn. 
Remedies 
Spraying with lime-sulphur late in the 
winter or early spring before the ap- 
pearance of the leaves will control it. 
O. A. JOHANSEN, 
Orono, Me. 
Eye Spotted Bud Moth 
Tmetocera ocellana Schlieff 
H. F. WItson 
The larvae of this moth resemble those 
of the Peach and Prune Twig Miner quite 
closely, and they are often mistaken one 
for the other, but the latter work only 
on the stone fruits, while the former 
work on practically all of the orchard 
trees. By careful examination they can 
readily be distinguished by the anal 
shield, which on the above insect is shin- 
ing black like the head and _ thoracic 
