—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. May 7, 1977
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The tent
NEWARK, DeL - The tent
caterpillars are back again.
You can see their ugly nests
along any country road now,
or wherever the wild choke
cherry grows.
This is one of the best
known insects in our part of
the country, yet many people
confuse it with another “tent
maker”-the Fall web worm.
University of Delaware
extension entomologist Dr.
Dale Bray says one way to
tell the difference, even from
a car window, is by the tent
or nest. The tent caterpillar
seldom encloses leaves in its
tent. The fall webwofm, on
the other hand, spins its nest
around many leaves. Don’t
let die name of the Fall
webworm deceive you-it’s
with us from late Spring
until Fall, so you can’t be
sure of telling the two pests
apart by the time of year.
Tent caterpillars feed on
the cherry tree leaves for a
few weeks, enlarging their
tents as they themselves get
fatter and longer. And then,
on a warm day in May, they
desert their trees4ents and
all. They crawl about the
countryside, sometimes
climbing up the sides of
houses and even entering
homes. This understandably
distresses homemakers, and
such intruding caterpillars
are likely to end up in the
trash can.
Most of the rest find some
dark, protected place where
they can change from two
and-a-half -inch brownish
caterpillars with white
stripes down their backs into
a resting or pupal stage.
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caterpillar is back
Each pupa is covered by a
sulfur-yellow cocoon.
Come June, small reddish
brown moths will emerge
from these cocoons and fly
back to the cherry trees
where the females will lay
their eggs. Each female lays
between 150 and 300 eggs,
one next to the other, around
twigs in such a way that they
look very much like dark,
brown, varnished collars.
These eggs won’t hatch until
next year in late March or
early April, when the cycle
starts all over again.
Old-timers thought that
the best way to control tent
caterpillars was to burn
them with a ball of flaming
rags soaked in kerosene.
Bray discourages this
practice. Not only is this apt
to set Are to the whole place,
it harms the tree itself. It’s
better,, says the en-
Lamb care
discussed
YORK, P*. - The York
County 4-H Lamb Club held
its April meeting at the home
of diarla, Jon, and Susan
Janney. Linda Ebaugh and
Charla Janney assisted Tony
Dobrosky in demonstrating
and explaining the selection,
feeding, and care of project
lambs.
The tentative date for the
next meeting is May 11 at the
home of Donald Flory. The
program will be washing
show lambs.
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tomologist, to spray or dust
the tents with a small
amount of some insecticide
when the tents are small.
Materials which are ef
fective include Sevin,
fioidan, Dylox or Orthene at
labeled rates.
Non-chemical controls lor
the pest include destroying
egg masses before April,
hand destruction of webs and
larvae now, or removing the
wild fruit frees that harbor
them. If you’re going to
destroy the nests, do this at
dusk while all the cater
pillars are gathered inside.
When using insecticides, it
isn’t necessary to spray the
whole tree-just cover the
tent and the branches closest
to it. In most cases the best
treatment is to ignore the
insect. In a few weeks,
there’ll be more leaves on
the frees and all is nice
again.
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May 20 deadline set in York
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set Friday evening, June 24,
for its annual pageant.
Highlight of the evening
festivities, scheduled for the
4-H Center near Bair, will be
the crowning of the 1977-78
York County dairy princess.
Mrs. Leo Rutter, 53
Lightner Road, York, is
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plans for the June program.
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•must be the daughter of a
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1977.
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