. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 10 BULLETIN 914, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGPJCULTURE. FOOD PLANTS. The red-banded leaf-roller is nearly omnivorous, its food plants comj^rising many botanical orders. Tiie list follows: Asparagus, beans, sweet potato, cabbage, horse-radish, celery, parsley, rhubarb, salsify, tomato, SAveet corn, pepper, okra, ground cherry (Physalis), blackberry, raspberry, and straw^berry among truck crops; chrysanthemum, geranium, rose, lobelia, violet, snow- ball, syringa, hollyhock, zinnia, privet, and honeysuckle comprise the list of ornamental pl
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 10 BULLETIN 914, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGPJCULTURE. FOOD PLANTS. The red-banded leaf-roller is nearly omnivorous, its food plants comj^rising many botanical orders. Tiie list follows: Asparagus, beans, sweet potato, cabbage, horse-radish, celery, parsley, rhubarb, salsify, tomato, SAveet corn, pepper, okra, ground cherry (Physalis), blackberry, raspberry, and straw^berry among truck crops; chrysanthemum, geranium, rose, lobelia, violet, snow- ball, syringa, hollyhock, zinnia, privet, and honeysuckle comprise the list of ornamental plants. Other plants affected are clover, field corn and popcorn, cranberry, elderberry, grape, orange, apple, plum, elm, maple, oak, laurel oak, aspen, willow, magnolia, catalpa, balsam fir, and Osage orange. The larva also attacks pigweed {Amamnthus retroflexus), goldenrod {Solidago spp.), smartweed, dogbane, Sola- num sp., and (rnaphalium polyceplialum. "natural enemies. The recl-banded leaf-roller is no exception to a somewhat general rule that larvsB which conceal themselves from view in rolled and webbed leaves and similar places of shelter are the more subject to parasitic attack. The fol- loAving list of para- sites is in evidence: _ Exochus ciirvator Fab,, an ichneu- monid, was reared by the writer Au- gust 7. 1900, from the host larva col- lected at Camerons Fig. 4.âMicrohracon sp., a of the lod-banded leaf- Mills, Va.^ 'â °"''^"- Epivrus 'nidaga- tor Walsh was reared from this leaf-roller on oak at Kirkwood, Mo., November 7, 1878. An ichneumonid parasite allied to Pimpla was reared from mate- rial received from Cadet, Mo., in July, 1893, previously mentioned. (Dept. Agr. No. 5861".) Lampronota pleuralh Cress, was reared at St. Louis, Novem- ber 7, 1878. Limnerium sp. is mentioned by F. M. Webster as having been reared with this leaf-roller and two others on 3 Identified by Ashmead, who also identified practically all
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