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Excerpt from Report of Work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association: The Hawaiian Sugar Cane Bud Moth (Ereunetis Flavistriata) With an Account of Some Allied Species and Natural Enemies
This moth is variously known as the bud moth, budworm, tor sheath moth of the sugar cane It is very abundant in all cane fields throughout the Hawaiian Islands. The larvae are always to be found beneath the leaf-sheaths of the older leaves which are partially or completely dead and dried. They are most abundant where no stripping has been done or where there is more or less of a tangled mass of leaves. They normallv feed upon the dried leaf-sheaths themselves, also on the leaves. On the sheath they feed on the inner side towards the cane stalk, eat ing out between the strands of fibers, often burrowing into the substance of the leaf - sheath (plate I, Fig. Besides their normal feeding, however, they often eat off the surface of the rind for considerable areas, particularly at or just above the nodes where it is apt to be softer; but they sometimes eat off the surface from a whole internode. This eating of the surface is most likely done while the rind is yet growing, before it becomes hardened.
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