296 Report of the Department of Entomology. 



bj not allowing any small shoots to grow on cutting beds during 

 the cutting season. Where new beds are being put out yearly, 

 pulling and allowing the old stalks to dry and burning them will 

 aid in keeping the pest under control. The stalks can be pulled 

 and burned any time after they are dead, but when passible it 

 should be done late in the fall. Where left until spring the 

 stalks rot to such an extent that the bark slips off, in pulling, and 

 the puparia are left in the ground. 



CONCLUSIONS. 



Growers of asparagus are not generally aware of the work and 

 injury of this pest, as it usually w-orks in the asparagus stem 

 below the surface of the ground. 



Its work was first noticed on asparagus in the fall of 1896. 



It is not known where or how the eggs are deposited. 



There are at least two distinct broods of this pest on Long 

 Island. 



It is suggested that this pest be called " asparagus miner." 



The injury, such as it is, is done by the maggot. 



It is still a question whether this pest does enough injury to 

 cutting beds to warrant growers going to any extra expense to 

 get rid of it, but this does not necessarily prove that it may 

 not become a troublesome pest, as it is already known to injure 

 seedling beds. 



At present the only means that can be given to control it is 

 pulling of the old asparagus stalks as soon as they are killed by 

 frost, and burning them. 



