Cranberry Insects

Katydids, leaf hoppers, a scale-insect, etc., live off the Cranberry, but the following are of serious importance: 1. Rhopobota vacciniana, a moth whose eggs hatch into slender green black-headed larvæ that kill the leaves while spinning them into a cocoon. In two or three days a bog can in this way be changed from green to brown. The flowers also are killed. Two broods yearly, the first from eggs that have wintered over. 2. Teras vacciniivorana, a moth orange in summer broods, gray in autumn. The autumn moths winter under rubbish and lay eggs in the spring that hatch in May. By June the larvæ are transformed into orange moths. The larvæ of the winter moths are reddish, the others are green with yellow heads. Pyrethrum, tobacco-decoction, arsenites, kerosene, may be used. 3. Acrobasis vacinii is a reddish-green larva of a gray moth which lays eggs on the fruit. The young bore into the berry and travel into new berries to mature by September. Spray with arsenites at fall of flowers. 4. Ceci domys vacinii, the ''tip-worm," eats out the terminal bud and stunts the vines.