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( IlEKKV-TUEE ENEMIES. 
The insects mentioned in this paper that may also be 
found attacking the cherry are ; the Fruit-tree Leaf-roller, 
Tent Caterpillar, Fall Webworm, San Jose Scale, Brown 
Mite, Pear Slug and Plum Curculio. 
THE ACHEMON SPHINX. iJ (uii})ehi s (tcht'inoih Drury.) 
The young larva has a long horn on the last 
segment of the bod}^ while the fully grown worm only 
has a shining black spot, I'he eggs are deposited 
early in July on the leaves of grape and \drginia 
creeper. The larvm soon hatch from them and feed on the 
leaves until about the last of August when they become 
fully grown and descend to the ground to pass the winter in 
the chrysalis. 
Remedies — The worms are so large that they are 
readily seen and can be collected by hand and destroyed. 
They may also be destroyed by the use of Paris green or 
London purple sprayed or dusted on the leaves or, when 
unsafe to apply poison, by the use of Pyrethrum. 
INSECT ENE3riES OF YIIMilMA CKEEFEK. 
ddie foregoing enemies of the grapevine also attack the 
Virginia creeper and the remedies to use are the same in 
both cases. 
INSECT ENEMIES OF SMALL FKl ITS. 
THE EIGHT-SPOTTED FORESTER {, 11 i/pin ocfoinarnhifd Fab.) 
The larvae of this insect are common upon the grape 
vdnes in July and again in September. They are marked 
with numerous white, black and reddish cross-lines. On the 
middle segments of the body there are about eight black 
and seven white cross-lines to a segment and a broader 
reddish line on the middle of the segment. I.ow on the 
sides of the body and back of the tliree anterior pairs of 
legs there are rather irregukr; white blotches. When fully 
grown the larva' are about one and one-half inches long. 
The moth spans a little more than an inch from tip to 
tip of wings, and is black in color with two large cream col- 
ored spots on each fore wing and one large and one small 
white spot on either hind wing, the large spot being at the 
