. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 126 Bulletin 223. on which it works and has a sUghtly brownish head; the young caterpillars are light yellowish. The blossoms and young fruits are webbed together and fed upon by the caterpillars. When full-grown they spun a hght cocoon between two leaves and in three or four days transformed to brown pupse, from which the reddish-brown, banded adults or moths, shown in Fig. 25, emerged in ten days or on July 16 and 19. We saw nothing more of the insect
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 126 Bulletin 223. on which it works and has a sUghtly brownish head; the young caterpillars are light yellowish. The blossoms and young fruits are webbed together and fed upon by the caterpillars. When full-grown they spun a hght cocoon between two leaves and in three or four days transformed to brown pupse, from which the reddish-brown, banded adults or moths, shown in Fig. 25, emerged in ten days or on July 16 and 19. We saw nothing more of the insect in the grape-berries during the season, but it may work as a leaf-roller on the grape foliage. It is such a general feeder, that it probably will never become a serious vineyard pest. This red-banded leaf-roller has been recorded as feeding on the following plants: cranberry, roses, clover, elm, soft maple, oak, apple, beans, strawberry, corn, Gnaphalium polycephalum, violets, chrysanthemum. Lobelia, honeysuckle, some other ornamental plants, and numerous field and garden crops. A moth in the National Museum CoUection was bred from a caterpillar feeding on and boring into plums, which is not milike its grape-berry eating habit. Mr. W. D. Kearfott has also reared the moths in August on narrow leaf Solidago and Dogsbane, and from over-wintered pupae in May on Sycamore and Apple. Surely this is a variable diet even for an insect. One of the parasitic foes of the grape-berry moth also attacks this red-banded leaf-roller. It is Urogaster canarsiae Ashm. We reared one specimen on July 12. The arsenate of lead poison spray, which our experiments indicate is so effective against the spring brood of the grape-berry moth, will also reach its comrade— this red-banded Fig. 25.—The red-banded leaf-roller (Eiilia triferana Walk.) and its caterpillar, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for rea
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