. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. Insects, etc., Injurions to the Pe ?ar. 331 my garden at Wye, and ([uite destroyed tlie foliage oT two yijung (-'o\'s ((range i'ippins. The attaek seems to lie well known to gardeners in manv parts of the country, bnt does not seem lo affect pdaiitations to any great extent. Stainton (2) says: "In the neighliourhood of London it is excessi\-ely aljundant, and from the profusion of tlie mines of tla; larva', the hawthorn hedges will in August assume ipuite a li
. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. Insects, etc., Injurions to the Pe ?ar. 331 my garden at Wye, and ([uite destroyed tlie foliage oT two yijung (-'o\'s ((range i'ippins. The attaek seems to lie well known to gardeners in manv parts of the country, bnt does not seem lo affect pdaiitations to any great extent. Stainton (2) says: "In the neighliourhood of London it is excessi\-ely aljundant, and from the profusion of tlie mines of tla; larva', the hawthorn hedges will in August assume ipuite a lirownish ; It is also nieirtioned by Curtis {â '>) and by Westwood (4) and earlier by Ivnight ( Horti- cultural T r a n s a c t i o n s), whose trees were so injured that he at one time resolved to remove them. In 1775 Goeze (o) gave a descrip- tion of what is evidently this species mining the leaves of apple and pear trees in Germany. It is also recorded ir(mi XortliumljerLand, Durham^ Lancashire, I'orkshire, (Jlieshire, W a r w i c k s h i r e, Xorfolk, Suffolk, Essex, H e r e f 0 r d, G1 o u c ester, Dorset and Wilts (1). In a copy of the Cottage for May 1849 (ti), I find a reference to an insect tfiat is evidently '". si-itrlhi,, "Every gar- dener," it sa)'s, " must ha\'e observed the leaves of his pear trees, especially those the Chaumontelle, blotched with dark brown spots in the autumn. AVe had a standard tree of this variety that annually was thus injured, whilst a S\van's Ewfr and Easter Berramot close by were comparative!v untouched. The brown blotches were caused by tlie caterpillars of a very small moth called the Pear Tree Blister Moth {Tinn/ i-InvlrUa)." The fio-ure is that of (' :i('ltrll(i, but the colour is "iven on the fore wings as being orange with a silvery spot on the outer edge and a mingling of black, lilac and purple on the inner angle; an orange feathery. Please note that these images are extra
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