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Show 158 Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters [Vol. XIV, canes or the entire plant may be killed in this manner. The lesser bud moth attacks the buds of apple, into which they burrow as the buds begin to swell in the spring; like the bud moth they destroy the flowering parts. The oblique banded leafroller, a commonly known pest of apples, is found in Utah feeding inside of the fruits of dewberries. To our knowledge this insect has It also feeds as a not elsewhere been reported as injuring dewberry fruits. leaf roller upon dewberry foliage during the summer months, doing most The boxelder leafroller has been re noticeable damage during the spring. sponsible for the defoliation of numerous shade trees throughout the state. During feeding, larvae roll and fold the leaves, often spinning extensive webs. The strawberry crown borer chiefly attacks the crowns of the strawberry plants, which may be entirely hollowed out or girded. The attacks usually Smicrotes peritana is result in the complete death of the infested plants. found rolling strawberry leaves in parts of Utah. Its work closely resembles that of Ancylis comptana fragariae and Anacampis fragariella, the more com The sugar-beet webwonn damaged sugar-beets mon strawberry leafrollers. in the Price area and truck crops around Panguitch and Junction during 1936. The sugar-beet crown borer attacks sugar beets just below the bases of the leaves, eats the skin, bores into the crown, and often works down into the The Indian meal moth feeds upon cereals and cereal center of the beet. dried fruits, nuts and candies. Under favorable conditions several products, broods occur annually. The western grape leaf skeletonizer feeds upon the leaves of grapes and Virginia creeper and has been found in several localities in Utah including Blanding, Ogden, and Logan, during 1936. These lepidoptera and many others listed above cause frequent injury to agricultural crops, ornamentals and range plants in various parts of Utah. |
