. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. /».sTr/.s hijuriouv to llip Aj>ple. 93 iibseiice of spun together leaves arid lilossom and liy the wliole nmss dying back. A'eiy similar etfects aw. jivoduced by canker. It ]ias also ),een reported attacking pears (1). It is a widespread ],est, having been recorded from Worcestershire, Herefordshire, (iloncestcr- sliire, Cambridgeshire, Bonrnemonth, Sussex (liaiLshani and Pole- gate), Surrey and Keiit(l), and in Ireland it is recorded liy Carpenter ((â )) from
. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. /».sTr/.s hijuriouv to llip Aj>ple. 93 iibseiice of spun together leaves arid lilossom and liy the wliole nmss dying back. A'eiy similar etfects aw. jivoduced by canker. It ]ias also ),een reported attacking pears (1). It is a widespread ],est, having been recorded from Worcestershire, Herefordshire, (iloncestcr- sliire, Cambridgeshire, Bonrnemonth, Sussex (liaiLshani and Pole- gate), Surrey and Keiit(l), and in Ireland it is recorded liy Carpenter ((â )) from Dounybrook. LlFE-HlS'lni;y .VNi) '.lTS. Tiie niotli of i-liuili-iitdln lias a win-' expanse' uf a little less tliaii I inch ; the front wings may lie almost entirely black, or may lie marked with dark Iirown, and rust\' brown ; the innei- margin of the fore wings is Avdute lo beyund the middle, where an irregular hiint oldiiiue white bar proceeds to {\w tip of the 'iving, and two l)ranch"s from this intersect the black apica! pdrtion. The hind wings are grey and deiisel\" fringed; the head black. Car[ienter (11) sa>'s the tine Lacirnn ulrn, llawoith, is characterised by a A\diite head, and that the black-headed form is 7/ rliKilrnlclln_ The specimens I lia\'e lu'ed have liad both black and wiiite heads. The white- headed species is .//. JiiUcnUiir The moths appear in duly and on into August. The egg stage is uldâ ;no^\â ll. The larvae hatch in late summer and feed first of all on the leaves, later they liore into a bud, and still later undei' the rind of a spur or shoot near a bud and remain there all the winter. Their presence can be detected by a small rraiiid hole near tlie bud and a brown blister-like jiatch where the}' lau'C Ijeen Avovkiiig. In spring they tuiimd up the slioot, which if Ijrokeii off lie found to contain tlie I'itli iMotli caterpillar or pu[ia, usually situated near (he apex of a shoot. The lar\a is dull reddish-biown with a deep
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