. Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902 . ree from them. Another enemy of the apple, the Codling moth {Carpocapsa pomonella) committed consid-erable injury this season, and in one orchard, for example, on Davenport Road, evidences of itspresence could be detected in about seventy-five per cent, of the apples. 40 THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 The Tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma) Figs. 24 and 25, is still by far the most formidable•nemy of our shade trees, although it appearsto be gradually diminishing in numbers and was•listinctly less abundant than it has been duringthe
. Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902 . ree from them. Another enemy of the apple, the Codling moth {Carpocapsa pomonella) committed consid-erable injury this season, and in one orchard, for example, on Davenport Road, evidences of itspresence could be detected in about seventy-five per cent, of the apples. 40 THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 The Tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma) Figs. 24 and 25, is still by far the most formidable•nemy of our shade trees, although it appearsto be gradually diminishing in numbers and was•listinctly less abundant than it has been duringthe past three or four years. Very few trees were•bserved that were completely stripped or nearly»0, though in the lower part of the city therewere a good many badly disfigured trees. has yet been done to control its ravages. Fijr. 25. Tussock Moth Caterpillar, full-arrown. On the above property there was a laoge plantation of red currant bushes, which, at thetime they were seen by the writer (August 15) were almost completely stripped by the larvae.
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