Show INJURY BY RED APPLE BUGS comparatively new pest but hat has done enormous amount of damage in new york orchards the apple red bug Is a comparatively now new pest but it has bas done tin enormous amount of damage in apple orchards in many parts of new york for the past two or three seasons nr it Is ia not often seen but the results of its work are all too apparent at picking time when the fruit is found to be ba more or less deformed so that it will not pass for A grade the injury is caused by punctures which the insect makes in young apples in order to suck out the juice tho the tissue doc not develop normally around these thesa punctures and a slight depression Is left in the fruit A small greenish L 4 new york apple orchard core may also be seen when cutting across one of these depressions of chich there may be as many as on in a single apple the northern spy seems to be especially subject to attack by this insect the remedy is to i pray with somo some contact insecticide when the insects are present and before they begin to work on the young fruit experiment stations agree that a tobacco extract Is effective in controlling this insect |