. A manual of injurious insects with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit. To which is appended a short introduction to entomology . is used for whitewashing application Mr. MKenzie found to be an cftectual andpermanent cure, and later on he forwarded me excellentspecimens of l^oth White and Bed Currants, gathered off thepreviously-mentioned Inishes, to show that the remedy hadproved thoroughly effective against the infestation, and doneno harm to the plants. Where only a little of the infestation appears, it would bedesirable at
. A manual of injurious insects with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit. To which is appended a short introduction to entomology . is used for whitewashing application Mr. MKenzie found to be an cftectual andpermanent cure, and later on he forwarded me excellentspecimens of l^oth White and Bed Currants, gathered off thepreviously-mentioned Inishes, to show that the remedy hadproved thoroughly effective against the infestation, and doneno harm to the plants. Where only a little of the infestation appears, it would bedesirable at once to use the al)Ove or some other serviceableapplication, for if soft-soap alone did not answer, probal)lysome of the common soft-soap and sulphur applicationswould not fail to kill the minute larviu straying in crowds overthe bushes. But where remedies could not be brought to 310 GOOSEBERRY. bear, it would be best to cut off and burn the infestedbranches, or to destroy and burn the infested bushes if it couldbe done without serious loss, and thus stamiD out this newly-observed pest in good time.* GOOSEBEEEY. Magpie Moth; Currant Moth. Abraxas (, Stephens. ,w?.. Magpie Moth, and larva. The caterpillars of the Magpie Moth sometimes do a greatdeal of mischief, both in gardens, and in fruit-farms, bystripping the Currant and Gooseberry leafage. The Magpie Moth is widely distributed, and the caterpillarsare injurious from Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, and Poltallock, inArgyllshire, to the south of England, and, besides the leafageof Black, Eed, and White Currants, and also of Gooseberries,which they habitually feed on, they are sometimes found onthat of Apricots and Plums, and especially frequent Sloe orBlackthorn hedges. In 1885 the attack was very S. L. Mosley, Beaumont Park Museum, Huddersfield,reported to me:— The Magpie Moth has been more numerousthan for many years before. Here it has been abundant inone or two places, and has entirely stripped th
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