. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). The Cigar-case Bearer. CoUophora fletchereUa Fernald. Order lepidopteea ; superfamily tineina. During the past year (1894) fruit trees in western IS'ew York have suffered severely from the attacks of two, practically new, insect pests. One of these, the plum scale, was dis- cussed in Bulletin 83; and in the following pages are given the re-. sults of our investi- gation of the other insect, the cigar-case bearer. Judging from the number of inquiries, wit


. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). The Cigar-case Bearer. CoUophora fletchereUa Fernald. Order lepidopteea ; superfamily tineina. During the past year (1894) fruit trees in western IS'ew York have suffered severely from the attacks of two, practically new, insect pests. One of these, the plum scale, was dis- cussed in Bulletin 83; and in the following pages are given the re-. sults of our investi- gation of the other insect, the cigar-case bearer. Judging from the number of inquiries, with their a c c o in- 54.—Work of the Cigar-case bearer on apple foliage, June 14. (From Bailey.) p a n y 1 n g specimens, that reached the in- sectary in 1894, this case bearer was one of the most serious pests of the season. Professor Bailey's observations, recorded in Bulletin 84, p. 15, also show that the insect was very destructive, especially in the apple orchards in Wayne and Monroe counties. Fig. 54 is a fair sample of its destructive work on apple foliage; many of the. 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 Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Ithaca, N. Y. : The University


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