tJ'JO Grasses and Leguminous Crops in New York 



Reomedial measiu-es have never been found necessarv for this 

 pest since the grubs are destroyed in great numl>ers wherever 

 clover is cut at the proper time. 



THE CLOVER-SEED CIIALCID 



Brucophagus funebris Howard 



The depredations of three insects- — the clover-seed chalcid, 

 the clover flower-midge, and the clover-seed caterpillar — render 

 the production of clover seed very uncertain, and consequently 



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Fig. 662. The Clover-Seed Chalcid: (a) Adult; (6) Larva; (c) Pupa. 



(IJ . S. Department of Agriculture) 



greatly increase the cost of raising this crop. The first of these 

 is probably, on the whole, the most injurious, although it often 

 happens that the second is more destructivei. 



The cloverrseed chalcid is abundant throughout the state. The 

 adult insect is a small four-winged fly (Fig. 662, a), slightly less 

 than one-twelfth inch in length, black in color with parts of the 



