. Orcharding. Fruit-culture. 84 apple-tree caterpillar and the red-humped caterpillar, feed in groups and may completely strip a limb of its leave's. Where such a limb can be reached easily, removing the caterpillars by hand — as they are all close together — and killing them may be easier than spraying the tree, though if handwork for any reason is undesirable, spraying will be effective. Sometimes in early fall small thin webs appear on some of the limbs, increasing in size as time passes, until in September they may be nearly as large as a bushel basket. These are the webs of the fall webwo
. Orcharding. Fruit-culture. 84 apple-tree caterpillar and the red-humped caterpillar, feed in groups and may completely strip a limb of its leave's. Where such a limb can be reached easily, removing the caterpillars by hand — as they are all close together — and killing them may be easier than spraying the tree, though if handwork for any reason is undesirable, spraying will be effective. Sometimes in early fall small thin webs appear on some of the limbs, increasing in size as time passes, until in September they may be nearly as large as a bushel basket. These are the webs of the fall webworm, and may be distinguished from those of the tent caterpillar by the facts that theiy occur in late summer instead of May and June and that they are not placed in forks, but cover the branch. The caterpillars of this-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Massachusetts. Dept. of Agriculture. Boston, Wright & Potter printing company, state printers
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