Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-14

thick underground are favorable to the pest.
THE DRIED FRUIT MOTH
Is not, as some suppose, the codling moth or
apple worm. Blowers remedy is the
best, who covers the shelves and windows
around the packing house with buhach.
The honey bee at times is infested with IN
sect parasites. The bee moth is its worst
enemy. 1t has two broods each season. The
moth can be found around the hives at night
nearly all summer. By day it hides in the
crevices of the hives. The worm, when
Matched. makes silkeu tube for protection,
cuts to the wax, feeds on it, and destroys the
Young bees as it Poes. Raising the front Of
the hive ind placing there wooden rag in.
duces the Larvae to find 1t coZy retreat,
where it may be caught and killed. Move
able frame hives and vigilance viii work ex-
termination.
THE CARPET OR WOODEN MOTH,
The fur and the hair moth, he rext consid.
cred, SD found by the housewife, who well
knows their ability to do damage. He de-
scribed their formation, growth and habits.
About the middle of May strenuous efforts
should be made 70 destroy the eggs and
young. Lay open the closets. remove their
contents, take up carpets and TAPESTRY. Ex-
pose the whole to the air and sun for some
hours, and thoroughly brush, beat or shake
them. Brush cut floor aad wall cracks with
spirits Of turpentine, strew powdered black
or cayenne pepper under the edges of carpsts,
and put sheets Of paper, sprinkled WITH tur.
pentine, camphOr, leaves of tobacco, snuff or
buhach among the clothes to be laid away for
the summer. Moths can be killed by fumi-
eating the room with tobacco smoke or sui.
phur, or by exposing them 90 a heat OF 150'
Farh.
a HOST OF ENEMIES.
The potato has Its enemy in 8 species of
blister beetle. In Lassen county it did much
damage in 1881. Turnips have pest in the
shape of striped bug next is the twelve
spotted d, and next the striped turnip fee
beetle. Peas and beans are infested By cur
culios, the cabbage bug, o. the cater
pillar of the Southern cabbage butterfly,
and by tie cabbage-plsnt louise. Garden COR
has its corn-worn, and carrots, melons and
parsnips have each their parasites. Nearly
al! flowers and shrubs havs their insect para
siteg. The plant louise iufests nearly all
plants or shrubs and the scale insect infests
some. Hot.house plants have their pests,
and our finest foliage has its enemy. moth,
scale, wsevils, etc. So, too, are the oleandsr.
acc cia. rose and cactus attacked by species
ot scale. We have the leaf.cutting bes, tie
cock chafer, vine chafer, mole, cricket, gonse-
berry worm, currant-bush b)rer, and saw fly.
THE wooLLY APHIs
Is great pest to fruit groWers-white look
ing bitches seen on limbs and trunks of
trees. Il lives on the roots in winter and
ssceuds the tree in spring. The mother pro-
dUces without the presence Of the male. In
tweuty-one days ninety five young Will lie
the result OF single aphis. Each aphis pro-
duces ten broods per year. The first genera
ton being one, the second is 100, the third
1000, the tenth one quintillion Il 600, COO,
600 COO, 000,000) The sting of this louise
makes the tree hard, knotty. dry, brittle aad
covers it with prOtu5erances. Coal oil is
effective, but not ssfs for the trse a tobacco
decoction at 1902 temperature on application
is effective. A trench about the tree, with
lime in Il to slack in water, and then being
covered up with earth, is said to be SAFE
remedy. The apple leaf plant louse is plen-
titul In the Sacramento valley orchards
Ihsy are dark green color and COM
pletelyi cover tie surface Of the
leaves. Such trees, when dormant, should be
washed with an alkaline solution of concen.
trstei lye-One pound to each gallon cf
water. Spray the leaves and ftuit Ia early
summer with a solution of whale.oil soap, but
whsle-oil soap and sulphur mixed is a prefer
able remedy-ore pound Of soap and sulphur
to each gallon OF water. This pest is certain
to spread aisrminGly if not checked.
ON APPLE TREES
You may notice some with bsnd.lilse an
penoa8es on last years growth. If OF oval
shape, they are the eggs of the tent catsrpil-
lar. When not feeding on the foliage, they
gather in their tents, and can there be de-
str0yed by torch made of rags soaked IN
turpentine. Osher appendRges, more ring
like, around the new growth, are the eggs of
the Clisiocampa constricts and G. syevatica.
They feed on the young foliage, grow rapidly,
and full grown measure one and three
quarter inches. They do great in jury to
orchards 1t cost Mr.. De Long, of Marin
county, 81, GOO to wrest his orchard crop from
them. Last year. however, he picked the
eggs st q cost of 81 80 per ounce. Each
ounce had 600 rings averaging 800 eggs Der
ring, equaliag GO. 600 600 caterpillars. Last
year parasite-a Tachina fly attacked this
pest and partly destroyed it, and also a
parasite, a species of Brucon that reduced
the pest greatly. A pretty caterpillar is
found in apple trees known as the Tussoek
moth. It has wide tussock of white hair
from the fourth to the seventh segment. Ga
each side the first segment and on the upper
part of the eleventh is pencil Of long black
hairs, knobh5d at the top. It does great
dainsge to fruit and foliage. A Topper, geom-
eter or measuring worm caterpillar is four
in the orchard in April or shortly after, Il
attacks the leaves, and they appear as if
eaten by small iasect. This caterpillar has
but ten isgs-six or the first three segments.
two proleg5 on the ninth segment and two
anal prO.iegB OF the last segment. 1t Is prob.
ably the canker worm. Various devices to
destroy the psst have been tried. Trouphs
filled with liquid put around the tree prevent
the female from ascending. Thomas recon-
mends half-inch rops nailed around the tree
and band OF tin four or five inches wide
nailed over the rope, the top being even with
the rope. The females cannot pass up, and
deposit the eggs in the cavity between the
rope, and there they can be destroyed Six
pounds Of arsenic boiled in $50 gallons of wa
ter was used in spraying in one orchard and
exterminated the pests.
A SPECIES OF APHIs
Infests pear tree leaves. Apply the remedy
for apple leaf aphis. Pear siugs feed on the
epiderrnis of the leaves, and live on the ribs
Of the leaf. The following year the tree will
not bear full crop. Dry dust or powdered
lime thrown on the leaves, or sulphur and
powdered lime, destroy them. Thorough
washing with whale-Oil soap and sulphur is
best The codlirg moth infests in many To-
calities the fruit of the apple, rear and ounce
trees. This pest was unknown in California
until 1874. 1t was brought from the East in
apples shown at the State Fair in 1873 it is
believed. 1t first appeared, at least, near
Sacramento in the summer of 1874. Its
spread has been rapid. 1t is now found in
thirty cOu0Lle5. 1t Is the worst Of the insect
pests to exterminate. Success can only be
had by the united efforts of fruit-growers.
Some have interfered with the steps taken
uHder the law TO check the spread, and the
result is great injury, as Can plainly be seen
at present in San Francisco, by examining
the infested fruit offered and being shipped
broadcast.
THE PEACH
Has its parasitic enemy. This season new
one has sppeared-a small caterpillar little
over II inches long. 1t makes its home close
TO the pit when feeding. 0na fruit-grower,
who opposed the insect quarantine law. sent
q basket of peaches to market which Mr..
Cooke found to be teeming with this worm.
The cooling moth, Mr.. Cooke has positive
proof, has been in the peach crops this year
Last spring he found a new caterpillar pro-
ducing moth much resembling the peach.
eating one. The tarsntuls, or spider hawk
has attacked one peach orchard two successive
years. The pear-slug attacks the cherry tree
foliage. This year = false caterpillar was
founo in cherries-probably the lsrva If
saw fly. Apricots this year were infested
by what appears to be fungi. The red spider,
or red mite, has spread greatly, and reached
the almond tree. Tue lys and water wash
has been successfully used in some eases-two
pounds concentrated lye TO each gallon. 4
decocaion of tobacco laave5-half pound to
gallon, with one pound of concentrated I've
added-was used successfully by W. B.
West, Of Stockton. Spraying with whale. oil
soap ard sulphur, one pound of each TO q
gallon, Is successful remedy.