Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . e this insect is a small white moth withbrown markings with an expanse of wings of about | inch. REMEDIES. When the injury to the tree is serious the fallen leaves maybe raked up and burned in the autumn to restrict the develop-ment of the moth the following season. Well cultivated orchards have little to fear from this insect. 52 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. The Cigar Case-Bearer.(Coleophora fletcherella.) The caterpillars infest mainly the leaves, but in the springthey may also be found on the buds and the young fruits. T
Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . e this insect is a small white moth withbrown markings with an expanse of wings of about | inch. REMEDIES. When the injury to the tree is serious the fallen leaves maybe raked up and burned in the autumn to restrict the develop-ment of the moth the following season. Well cultivated orchards have little to fear from this insect. 52 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. The Cigar Case-Bearer.(Coleophora fletcherella.) The caterpillars infest mainly the leaves, but in the springthey may also be found on the buds and the young fruits. Thefull grown caterpillar is reddish orange and averages 1-5 of an,inch in length. The case, as it is made in the fall, is a minuteflattened curved structure composed of portions of the upperand lower skins of the leaf. In the spring a second case () is made, which is longer, cylindrical or cigar-shaped, inwhich the larva pupates. The adult insect which emerges fromthe pupa during June and July is a small, steel gray mothexpanding less than ^ an Fig. 23. (After Slingerland). REMEDIES. This insect can be kept in check by arsenical sprays, the firstto be applied as soon as the cases are noticed on the openingbuds. A second and perhaps a third application may be neces-sary at intervals of 4 to 7 days on badly infested trees. maine agricultural experiment station. 53 Leaf Blister Mite.(Eriophyes pyri.) Nearly 20 per cent of the inquiries which reached the Depart-ment of Entomology of the Maine Agricultural ExperimentStation from about the middle of July to the middle of Augustconcerned the work of the leaf blister mite on apple. For themost part this work was not unnaturally mistaken by the peoplecollecting it for some fungus disease, as the blotches on theleaves resemble somewhat the injury caused by leaf-spot mites themselves are so small that they are invisible to theunaided eye, and although they can be seen as moving speckswith a good hand lens, it takes
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