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Hill Fireworm
Order: Lepidoptera || Family: Tortricidae
Tulsa (=Tlascala) finitella
This fireworm only goes through one generation per year, as compared with the black-headed fireworm which goes through two if not three generations per year.  So far, only one larva has been found--on 6/20/06--on any Maine commercial cranberry bed, but whereas fireworm is such a patchy insect, its numbers could be more prevalent than that single, lone discovery in 2006 might suggest.
Hill Fireworm larva . damage caused by just one hill fireworm larva, before its capture
LEFT: a Hill Fireworm larva found on June 20th, 2006 in central Maine (only 1 found)
RIGHT: Damage caused by the fireworm larva pictured at left, prior to its being found.

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