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AGRICULTURE OF MAINK. 



STRAWBERRY WEEVIL. 



Fig. 10. Anthonomus signatus; a, b, strawberry spray showing 

 work in bud and btem natural size: c, outline of egg; d, larva; 



e, head of same; f, pupa; g, open bud showing location of egg 

 on left and punctures made by snout of beetle on petals; c, d, 



f, g, enlarged; e, still more enlarged. (Chittenden. Annual 

 Report of the U. S. Dept. of Agri. 1892). 



REMEDIES. 



As the life cycle is passed within the bud, spraying will not 

 avail. Careful search should be made for this insect especially 

 on new plants obtained out of the State, and at its first appear- 

 ance the plants infested should be destroyed, if only a few in 

 number, or the ground be thoroughly gone over and cleaned up 

 of buds, leaves, etc., and this material burned to destroy the 

 eggs or young larvee. This was the method recommended in 

 the case of Mr. Herman Corbet of Farmington, whose straw- 

 berry bed was infested in 1905. The treatment was effective in 

 that case. 



