| Show 0 0 WHAT GYPSY MOTH LIVES ON caterpillars must have some deciduous foliage for food they are partial to fruit trees by W E BRITTON state ento entomologist m connecticut A ri cultural station the damage caused by the gypsy bolh consists in stripping trees shrub and other plants ot of their leaves by the caterpillars formerly it was supposed that the caterpillars would attack almost tiny any kind ot of foliage ash being perhaps the most nearly immune of tiny any of our broad leaved deciduous trees but more recent investigations at the parasite laboratory If melrosa elros highlands mass conducted under the direction of mr A F I 1 burgess show r I 1 4 L 1 if 7 female laying egg cluster that the caterpillars in their first and second san stages es are not able to live on some of these plants even though they may feed on them in later stages of development for instance though the caterpillars in their later stages will feed upon pine and have killed hilled large areas of pine mixed with hard wood nood in massachusetts they must have some deciduous foliage for food in their first and second larval stages considering tile the matter from this standpoint it seems quite possible to cut out all other gro growth Nth leaving solid stands of pine or other conifers which with only slight protection may escape destruction by the use of on the trunks of the trees around the margins 1 l t such an area little damage will result in slight infestations the insects tire are nearly always found on old apple trees they are partial to fruit trees willow oak poplar and rose but when the caterpillars are abundant food ve comes increasingly scarce and they will feed upon a great many different trees and plants |
