534 SEVENTH REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



impracticable to do anything else toward preventing their ravages in native forests, 

 and in the case of valued trees on lawns or large estates, something can be accom- 

 plished by cutting away the infested tips and burning them while they still contain 

 insects. The White Pine Weevil, Pissodcs strobi Peck., is usually well controlled by 

 parasites. Occasionally it is present in enormous numbers and then the destruction 

 of small twigs literally mined with its burrows, and almost filled with its grubs and 

 pupae, cannot but result in good, even though it may involve the destruction of 

 a few parasites. 



THE END OF THE DAY. 



