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e time when this insect is most active. Unless, therefore, pyre- 
:um should prove more effective than seems likely, there is no 
parent remedy for its injuries to the strawberry crop, except cap- 
re with the insect net. This method would probably be found as 
ective as any other in combating it in the vineyard and nursery, 
hough the application of kerosene would here be proper. 
2. An insect enclosed in a webbed cluster of leaves and blossoms. 
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The Strawberry Flower Worm ( Eccopsis permundana, Clem.) 
Order Lepidoptera. Family Tortrichle. 
This is an especially annoying and destructive leaf-roller, because, 
like the other species mentioned, it prefers the flowers and flower- 
ds to the leaves, webbing a cluster of them together, and feeding 
them within the ball. It attacks not only the strawberry, but 
3 blackberry, raspberry, hazel and Spiraea. 
Mr. Saunders mentions a fruit grower in Canada, who lost nearly 
If his strawberry crop from the ravages of this insect in 1868 and 
39, and Prof. Comstock found it doing a great deal of damage to 
spberries near Ithaca, New York, in 1880. On this plant and the 
tckberry it spins the terminal leaves together into a more or less 
isted mass, within which it feeds. This species has not been re- 
rted from Illinois, but as it certainly occurs on both sides of us, 
•m Maine to Missouri, it doubtless infests our fields also. 
It was first described by Dr. Clemens, in the Proceedings of the 
liladelpliia Academy of Natural Sciences for 1860 (p. 356); and 
3ms first to have been reported as an enemy of the strawberry by 
\ Saunders, in the Report of the Ontario Entomological Society 
■ 1872 (p. 20). Prof. Comstock’s account of its work on the rasp- 
rry is contained in his Report as United States Entomologist for 
80. The larva is very briefly described by Clemens and Saunders, 
d the latter writer gives a few particulars relating to the life 
dory of the species. Prof. Comstock describes the larva and pupa 
3 Exartema permumdana) , and gives an account of their transform- 
ons as observed in New York. 
The larva which works this mischief is about five-eighths of an 
;h in length when full-grown, of a dark green color, touched with 
i ilowish at the junction of the segments, the head and cervical 
j ield being pitchy black. It is unusually active when disturbed, 
ickly letting itself down from the rolled leaves by a fine silken 
*ead. If, however, it is not further disturbed, it gradually draws 
3lf up again. 
The pupa is of a light brown color, two-fifths of an inch long; 
vers of the hind wings with a rounded prominence at the base, 
•dornen terminated by a three-pointed prominence, with the usual 
nute hooks. 
