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through the cane. The insect attacks blackberry canes as 

 well. The presence of this insect may readily be guessed 

 at if the tip of the cane wilts. 



Probably none of our plants are freer from insect en- 

 emies than is the grape. The most common one is doubtless 

 the grape slug, or saw fly, as it is sometimes called. This 

 is a small, shining black fly, which lays her eggs upon 

 the under side of the grape leaves early in the spring. 

 These eggs soon hatch and the worms, when fully grown, 

 are about f of an inch long, and of a pale yellow color, 

 with greenish backs and many spots all over the body. 

 They feed in company and are so regular in their move- 

 ments as they devour a leaf that they look very much like 

 soldiers moving together across a field. 



The worst insect enemy of plum and cherry growers 

 is the curculio or ''little Turk", as it is occasionally called. 

 It is a grayish brown beetle about one fourth inch long 

 having a snout curved under the body, by means of which 

 a hole is bored in the fruit. In this hole the egg is laid 

 and then a crescent-shaped incision is made in the skin 

 about it. In a few days the egg hatches and the worm 

 begins at once to eat its way into the fruit. 



The plum curculio is also very often destructive in 

 peach orchards, stinging the fruit and causing it to be 

 wormy and perhaps to drop prematurely. Borers too of 

 various kinds may destroy peach trees by boring into and 

 girdling them. The yellowing of the foliage may suggest 

 the possibility of these little fellows being present. 



The commonest of all fruit insects is the ''apple 

 worm" or codlin moth as it is properly called. Every 

 boy or girl has experienced keen disappointment some- 

 time during their life by being obliged to throw away a 

 big rosy apple after biting into it and finding it to con- 

 tain a pinkish worm three fourths of an inch long. The 

 adult insect which lays the egg from which this worm 

 hatches is a very innocent looking moth of a grayish 

 brown color and about half an inch long. This moth, 

 which passes the long winter months in a cocoon, makes 

 its first appearance in the spring just about the time the 



