Inse:cts and Insecticidks 31 
CUERANT AND GOOSEBERRY 
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Fruit 
Priiit Worm.—This is a flesh-colored worm about two-thirds of 
an inch in length,when fully grown. It attacks both the gooseberry 
and currant in some parts of Colorado, and may destroy a considerable 
portion of the crop by eating large holes into the berries'. It may enter 
a berry and eat out the interior and go on to another. Clusters of 
fruit and leaves are often loosely webbed together. The adult insect 
is a gray moth with rather long, narrow wings. See Fig. 22. 
Fig. 22.—Currant and Gooseberry Fruit-worm; A, worm; B, moth; C, gooseberries 
webbed together. Original in Bull. 114, Colo. Agr. Col. 
Remedies .—Hand picking is probably the best remedy. Destroy 
all web clusters. This is practical only on a small scale. Poison sprays 
would kill many, but would make fruit unsafe for food. Thorough cul¬ 
tivation will destroy many of the over-wintering chrysalids. 
Fruit Maggot .—This is one of the most serious pests of the goose¬ 
berry and currant in Colorado. It is a small, white maggot which 
feeds within the fruit, causing it to turn red and drop. The adult is a 
two-winged fly about the size of an ordinary house fly, but yellowish- 
brown in color, with dusky bands across the wing's. It comes out in 
the spring v/hen the berries are about half grown and stingis the fruit 
with its sharo ovipositor and deposits its eggs beneath the skin. In 
about three weeks the full grown maggot leaves the fruit and enters 
