. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . powder-like excrement of the worm. * * * If a hive isvery badly infested with the worms, it is better to drive out the beesand secure what honey and wax there may be left than to preserve itas a moth breeder to infest the apiary. If put into a new hive, thebees may do something; and if they do not, there is no loss, as theywould have perished, finally, from the ravages of the worm. The family Pterophoridse includes those graceful, elegant little mothscommonly known as plume-
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . powder-like excrement of the worm. * * * If a hive isvery badly infested with the worms, it is better to drive out the beesand secure what honey and wax there may be left than to preserve itas a moth breeder to infest the apiary. If put into a new hive, thebees may do something; and if they do not, there is no loss, as theywould have perished, finally, from the ravages of the worm. The family Pterophoridse includes those graceful, elegant little mothscommonly known as plume-moths, from the fact that their wings aredivided in such a manner as to suggest feathers. Sixty species areknown in the United States. They are vegetable feeders, but do littledamage to fruit. The family Tortrieidse is so named from its habit of rolling up theleaves of plants upon which the insects feed, and on this account theyhave received the common name of leaf-rollers. It must be remem-bered, however, that not all leaf-rollers belong to this family, nor are8—BH 114 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF Codling-moth (Carpocapsa pomoneUa), showing variations. All natural size. all of its members leaf-rollers. The family includes a number of sub-families, genera, and species. Many of them live in plants or burrow into fruits or the stemsof plants, and in thisfamily we find thatmost destructive of allfruit pests, the codling-moth (Carpocapsa po-monella). This onepest causes a loss tothe fruit-growers ofAmerica running intotens of millions ofdollars the other mem-bers of this familyare hurtful to plants, none of them, nor all together, have attained theunenviable prominence of the codling-moth. The family Yponoraeutidse is of moderate size, containing aboutsixty species in the United States. It is of little economic value. The family Geleehiidae consists of small moths, many if not most ofthem being injurious to vegetation. One of these, an introduced sp
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