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ORCHARD MOTH CATERPILLARS. 
“ My bailiff yesterday, in looking round the trees, detected amongst 
the branches eggs on a web, and the deposits which he supposes are 
also eggs.” My attention was also directed to the remains inside the 
cocoon, which proved to be the chrysalis. 
Examination of the figure will show the great number of eggs 
quite coating over the outside of the cocoon, and consequently show 
that the starting point of what would be much future mischief if 
neglected, may be very easily got rid of where the egg-covered cocoons 
are in reach. These should be carefully looked for, cut off, and 
destroyed wherever infestation is found to be present. When the 
twigs are out of reach of common measures, the use of a pair of very 
small, sharp hawks’-bill nippers, placed at the end of long-handled 
shears, would be desirable. 
So far as I am aware, this kind of implement is not nearly as much 
used as it should be. I have myself found a form with light handles 
about five feet long extremely convenient, and by means of a light 
hand-cart, which could be easily wheeled from tree to tree, a moveable 
platform would be available by which the operator could reach to a 
very fair height. A plank laid across the little cart from side to side 
would give firm standing position, and a means of reaching up to egg¬ 
laden twigs of many kinds,—notably of Winter Moth and Mottled 
Umber, and the egg-bands of the Lackey and Vapourer,—and 
(generally) give, with moderate convenience and little expense, a means 
of carrying clearance of pest presence about five feet higher than is 
often the case. 
Prevention and Remedies. — The careful series of observations 
which, either in experiment or regular practice or report of results, 
have been continued from February last up to this present date of 
December, 1890, show that the two main points to rest on for 
prevention and remedy of loss from attacks of orchard moth cater¬ 
pillars generally are—“ sticky-banding,” to stop the ascent of the 
wingless moths ; and spraying, to destroy the hordes of moth 
caterpillars of any, and all, of the various kinds which ravage together 
on the leafage in spring. 
The reader will please observe that here we are only speaking of 
Moth Caterpillars, not of Aphides or Green Fly, nor of Beetles, nor of 
Scale or other kinds of insects, which, being in some cases stationary, 
in some reaching their position by flight, and in some gaining their 
sustenance by driving their suckers into the soft tissues from which 
they draw the juices,—thus are not captured by “ sticky-bands,” as 
they have no occasion to cross them; nor are they destroyed by 
poisonous spraying on the leafage, for their suckers go down beyond 
the excessively slight superficial coating which alone is to be recom¬ 
mended for special use. 
