RASPBERRY-BUD CATERPILLAR. 
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method of attack, and also for the identification of the caterpillar as 
that of the L. rubiella .* 
On May 2nd Mr. Weir wrote me that a row of Raspberries in his 
garden at Chirbury, Beckenham, was seriously attacked by these small 
red larvas. They were found in the tips of the fresh shoots, which 
they entered at the growing point when the shoots were about an inch 
long, and ate their way down towards the cane, thus causing the 
shoot to wither, and on examination the shoot was found to be quite 
hollowed out. 
The small caterpillars were then only about the eighth of an inch 
long, of a bright red colour, with a brown head, and a brown spot on 
the segment next the head. The caterpillars were sometimes seen 
outside the shoots, but they were in no case found to leave the bud 
which had been attacked, so that, as far as could be seen, each cater¬ 
pillar only destroyed one shoot. Where there were two buds from one 
eye it was rarely found that more than one was attacked. 
The remedy applied was to cut off the infested shoot, and to 
destroy it with the insect within. In the hundred canes or thereabouts 
operated on about half the buds were found to be infested. The dis¬ 
budding, of course, strengthened the growth of the buds that remained, 
which grew luxuriantly, and bore a very large crop. 
The life-history of this Moth is given in detail by Prof. Westwood 
in a paper of the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ to which reference is given 
below, from which I extract the following information :— 
The caterpillar turns to chrysalis in a slight web amongst the 
shrivelled leaves from about the middle of May to the beginning of 
June. The Moth, which comes out from this chrysalis in about a 
fortnight or three weeks, is very small, scarcely half an inch across in 
the spread of the wings. It has brown wings, the upper pair spotted 
with gold-colour, of which spots two of the larger ones meet when 
the wings are folded along the back. [Somewhat like the pattern of 
the “Diamond-back Turnip Moth,” see fig. —Ed.] The female Moth 
lays her eggs in the Raspberry stem, the young caterpillars hatch at 
the beginning of August and feed on the Raspberry foliage, and secrete 
themselves during the winter .—See Gard. Chron. for 1853, p. 757. 
With regard to measures of winter prevention, it is plain that, as 
the caterpillar takes up its winter-quarters either in such shelter as it 
* The many appellations that have been bestowed upon it, of which the list is 
given by Prof. Westoood in his excellent paper on this insect (Gard. Chron. 1858, 
p. 757), are of some interest, as showing the great difficulties which variety in 
scientific name causes to enquirers. The Moth was the Tinea corticella of Linnaeus ; 
the Swedish naturalist, Bjerkander, named it Tinea rubiella; it was placed by 
Stephens in the genus Lampronia; Fabricius named it Alucita variella; Duponchel 
gave the specific name of multipunctella; Sodoffsky that of Fischerella; and it is 
stated to be the Glyphipteryx variella of Stainton’s ‘ Catalogue of Tineidae.’— Ed. 
