Show CATCH INSECTS BY SUCTION jN Method of Snaring Vineyard P Pest st Is II Being Used in State of California So Some ne of the Ole worst e enemies of th the crops are fire moths As m moths they ore are harmless but the caterpillars hatched from their the eggs are wholesale destroy destroy- y- y ers er E Every housewife Is lamentably familiar fa fn fa- fa millar with th the disgusting worm so commonly found in the ears of sweet corn that she buys for 01 her hel table Few ears seem to escape its attack while many are half devoured This filthy creature is the offspring of a moth that flies only in the nIghttime night nighttime nighttime time says the Kansas City Star Oft Often n n present in countless s numbers in the cornfields it t laying its eggs one here and another anoTer there on an n the silks of the corn The caterpillars as soon as hatched find their way to the growing ears creep them into au and begin to devour the grain Various schemes have been tried for trapping the moths Pans of sweetened sweeten sweeten- ed water water Tilter poisoned with cyanide cyanide of potassium have been scattered about in the field to attract them Lamps to draw them have bave been hung over receptacles containing kerosene so co that the fumes might suffocate them These and nd other contrivances have captured many moths but for s some me unexplained reason nearly all of them were males So what was was the use The bro c caterpillar for some som years emS has been causing a great deal dent of trouble in Massachusetts chiefly by scattering cat its poisonous hairs which float about In the air alt get Into peoples people's i clothing and engender a horrid r rash Persons have lIe been n made very sick by them and ono one man died la lu this case likewise the parent moths are night lIght filers fliers and efforts liar hay been made to tra trap them b by hanging ure arc lights over oyer vessels of kerosen Here again however those captured were nearly nil males The worst enemy of the grape growers grow grow- ers em In California Is a a. minute Insect called the thunder fly th because It appears appears ap ap- pears in greatest numbers in hot anti and an sultry weather when thunderstorms are frequent A man out there has invented a suction apparatus with a ten horse power blower that Is placed ron on wheels heels and driven through th the vineyards vineyards vine vine- yards ars harvesting the pests from the th vines tines as It goes along It Is sald aid to work Olk very successfully lr An even more remarkable a nee ance is used In Germany to capture wholesale the that cl devastate dens devas ns- ns tate late the forests It is provided with two powerful searchlights that draw the moths from miles away the apparatus apparatus ap ap- ap being placed on top of a building building build build- ing and they are further attracted b by n a pair pall of arc lamps lampson on either side of n a suction suction ventilator An electric mot motor r causes the fans of the the ventilator tor to revolve re rapidly thereby producing producing pro pro- an n Intake of air that thai swallows swallow er e every moth approaching within a few feet Through the ventilator th they pass pUB Into futo a n wire net cage A single machine machine ma ma- chine dune of this kind has been known Imo to catch pounds of moths a a. a night |