. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. CHERRY TENT-MAKER 6b been in the habit of feeding freely upon them, often depopu- lating a nest. Last spring these birds continued their good work, and did good service by exterminating a large propor- tion of the colonies that were present. In Fig. 16 is shown a nest in which holes had been made by one of these birds for the purpose of extracting the caterpillars. The orioles are likely to pierce the skin of the caterpillar and to extract some of the body con- tents, while the cuckoos swallow the insect whole. This difference in manner of feeding may
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. CHERRY TENT-MAKER 6b been in the habit of feeding freely upon them, often depopu- lating a nest. Last spring these birds continued their good work, and did good service by exterminating a large propor- tion of the colonies that were present. In Fig. 16 is shown a nest in which holes had been made by one of these birds for the purpose of extracting the caterpillars. The orioles are likely to pierce the skin of the caterpillar and to extract some of the body con- tents, while the cuckoos swallow the insect whole. This difference in manner of feeding may help to determine whether a given caterpillar's nest has been raided by oriole or cuckoo. If there are many dead and mutilated larvas on the branches near the tent it was probably an ori- ole; if the cater- pillars are gone and there are no such remains it was probably a cuckoo. The work of few insects in early summer is more noticeable than that of the Cherry Tent-maker or Ciiehry Twig-tyer (Cacoccia cerasivorana), which has been extraordinarily abun- dant during the last two years. This is the insect that so webs the young bushes of the wild choke cherry by the road- side that they look like a series of miniature white Fig. 10. Catprpillars* nest attacked by 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 New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. [Hanover, N. H. ] : New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
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