Show YOUNG APPLE TREES INJURED buffalo tree hopper causes much damage by cutting slits in twigs in which to la lay eggs by S A BEACH iowa agricultural experiment peri ment station the buffalo tree hopper is a small bug of bright grassgreen grass green color it feeds upon all kinds of succulent plants especially such as are found growing beneath trees in orchards or groves it damages young apple trees by cutting slits in the twigs and smaller matter branches in which it lays its eggs these slits are so made that an oval piece of bark is cut free from the wood where those these scars alre are numerous the whole branch bruy be buffalo tree hopper come bark bound stoned and warped out of shape the harril harm is greatest lu in young trees one of them badly attacked even for a single year becomes bark bound and stunted so that it never recovers where the hoppers gain a foothold in nurseries the breci are rendered the fact that the young nymphs must flad find tender vegetation at comparatively ively short distance from the tree in which they are hatched makes it ft possible to starve them out by follow ing tile the practice of clean ciena culture in the nursery or orchard during the summer months |