SMALL ERMINE APPLE MOTH. 
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caterpillars or chrysalids in tlieir cocoons, which are lying in it,—the 
same treatment, in fact, which answers well in getting rid of Goose¬ 
berry Sawfly caterpillar. Also it has been found that the Sawflies 
may be serviceably lessened in number when they are attacking the 
Apple blossom by shaking them down from the branches on a cloudy 
day, or when they are torpid from bad weather, and destroying them 
by sweeping them off cloths laid on the ground beforehand, or in 
whatever way may be most convenient. 
Small Ermine Apple Moth. Yponomeuta padella, Stephens ; 
? var. Malivorella, Sta. Oat. 
Yponomeuta padella. 
Small Ermine Apple Moth ; caterpillars, nat. size and magnified, and cocoons 
in web. 
The Small Ermine Apple Moth (the Yponomeuta padella of many 
authors) does great harm to Apple trees and Hawthorns. 
This Moth lays her eggs in patches on the small twigs, covering 
them over with a kind of gum, and under this patch the little cater¬ 
pillars, which hatch about October, live until next spring, when they 
come out and are stated to burrow into the young leaves and feed 
within for a while. When strong enough they come out, which 
accounts for the surprisingly sudden appearance of attack. They then 
feed on the leaves and spin webs, reducing the attacked hedge (or tree) 
to the dirty ragged appearance too well known, and in the webs the 
caterpillars shelter in companies, and also, when full-fed, the cater¬ 
pillars draw near together in their common web, and each spins for 
itself a cocoon, in which it turns to a chrysalis, from which the Moth 
comes out about June. These are of the shape figured above, but 
very variable in the depth of the tint of grey of the black-spotted 
upper wings. The kind figured above by Professor Westwood has the 
upper wings white, and is named Malivorella , from especially infesting 
Apple ; but the habits of these two species (or varieties of padella ) are 
so much alike, the same means of prevention are serviceable for both 
