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If left alone this attack is as destructive to fruit trees as any that 
we have, and the following notes give some idea of the mischief it 
causes, and the need of a working remedy :— 
Mr. J. W. Ellis, writing from Water Meetings, mentions :—“ I 
enclose specimens of caterpillars that do much damage in this part of 
Lancashire. They damage the Apple, Cherry, Black Currant, and 
Gooseberry. We cannot trace them any nearer their commencement 
than to the young leaves when they unfold, and they are prevented 
from opening by a web. The caterpillar eats holes in the leaf and 
then leaves it, and begins to eat at the fruit, making one hole in a 
berry, and will then select another. The fruit so bitten invariably 
falls to the ground. 
“ We sometimes have half our crops spoiled by this insect. We 
cannot find out how it comes, nor into what state it goes. We have 
tried to destroy it by white hellebore and by lime-wash, hut neither 
seemed to affect it. The caterpillars disappear about midsummer 
(June 20tli to 30th).” 
Dr. T. A. Chapman, Hereford, mentions:—“This spring the 
Cheimatobia has, within my range of observation, actually stripped 
trees of their leaves, and in one case half an orchard.” 
When once the green “ looper ” caterpillars of the Winter Moth 
have established themselves on a tree little can he done to check their 
ravage, excepting what can he managed by smart shaking of the 
houghs, so as to make the caterpillars let themselves down by threads, 
and then getting rid of them by trampling on such as fall and sweep¬ 
ing away all that may he dangling in the air beneath the branches with 
a pole, or any other convenient implement. 
The caterpillars of the above-mentioned Winter Moths turn to 
chrysalids during summer, either in or on the surface of the ground 
beneath the branches of the trees they have been stripping of their 
leafage ; and clearing away the surface-soil and destroying it with the 
contained -chrysalids, or slightly sprinkling fresh gas-lime on the 
ground so as to give the caterpillars a poisonous reception below when 
they are falling after they have come to full growth, would do good. 
But in any case a sticky hand, which isolates the tree from attack, 
is a cheap and sound treatment. 
