Show PLANS TO DESTROY INSECTS paper bags may be made use of to protect choice fruits from ravages of little pests prepared by the united states department of agriculture choice fruits especially gropes grapes may often be protected from insect pests by the use of paper bugs bags placed around the bunches and securely fastened by twine to the supporting shoot or cane this method is suitable for small vineyards and arbors in reducing injury from the grape berry moth the rose chafer and the green june beetle but it Is too expensive for use on a commercial scale bags may be put in place as soon as the blossoms have leave fallen gregarious insects as the apple tree tent at caterpillar fall webworm and others can be destroyed in their nesta by means of a torch A handful of 11 I 1 XA picking grapes in michigan rags fastened to a pole and soaked in kerosene will serve for this purpose the nests should be burned early in the morning while the caterpillars are at rl rest st within care being taken not to injure the larger limbs and branches egg masses of the gypsy moth and ot of other insects deposited on stone walls walla and similar situations can be destroyed by burning with suitable blast or other torches cranberry bogs are sometimes burned oer in order to destroy certain insects such as the cranberry gir girdler aler this is usually done by specially constructed torches lorios leales and trash in orchards which frequently harbor injurious insects should be well plowed under to add to the humus in the soll soil or raked up and burned during the fall winter or early spring it is a well known fact that certain insects are attracted at night to lights and in an effort to take advantage of this habit insect light traps have bren been recommended at various times for the capture 0 injurious species some of the traps developed are very simple and others are more elaborate patented contrivances the small forms consist of an ordinary lantern placed over a basin containing water which is covered by a thin film of kerosene or other oil the insects in fluttering about the light fall into the oil and are destroyed careful experiments with light traps in orchards have demonstrated fully that these have only blight if any value in orchard insect control the light traps capture some injurious forms but at the same time destroy a good many beneficial parasitic and predacious ous spec species es many have been induced to purchase light traps which were guaranteed to capture the codling moth this insect however Is very little if at all attracted to light traps and these are therefore useless in its control |