THE JOURNAL 



20^^^^^ OP THE 



-BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Vol. XIII. No. 12. 



MARCH, 1907. 



ORCHARD AND BUSH FRUIT PESTS IN 1906. 



The majority of the well-kncwn destructive insects of fruit 

 trees and bushes have been reported during the past year from 

 different parts of Britain. Some have appeared in sufficient 

 numbers to cause serious damage in isolated areas only, others 

 have been of more general distribution. Several insects have 

 been reported as doing damage that have not previously been 

 regarded as " pests." These are all well-known native species, 

 except one, which is apparently undescribed, viz., a small 

 " Cecid " fly, the maggots of which have damaged gooseberry 

 bushes in Herefordshire. 



Codling MotJi. — A considerable number of imported apples 

 have been examined during the past year and very large numbers 

 of the codling maggot {Carpocapsa poinonelld) were found in 

 certain consignments. Many were found in barrels examined 

 in villages, where on escaping from the barrels or being dis- 

 tributed with the apples, they could easily find shelter for 

 pupating, the moths flying later to adjacent gardens and 

 orchards. This is particularly unfortunate, as this serious pest 

 is one which can easily be kept in check and, in fact, almost 

 stamped out in our orchards, by spraying with arsenate of lead 

 and trapping by means of bands of loose sacking placed around 

 the trunks of the trees in early summer. 



The codling moth was not as harmful during the past year 

 as in the summer of 1905. It was complained of in Kent, 

 Worcestershire, and Devonshire. From Herefordshire one 

 grower writes that owing to banding his trees the pest, which 



