July 10, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



61 



THE MOTH-KILLING BEETLES. 



So many people have been destroy- 

 ing the parasites and beetles imported 

 to prey upon the moth pests that State 

 Forester F. W. Rane, now at the head 

 of the gypsy and brown-tail moth work 

 in Massachusetts, has issued a warn- 

 ing to the public against destroying 

 them. 



He asks all persons to exercise care 

 and not to kill these precious beetles 

 or the larvae which frequently are 

 found among the g>'psy and brown-tail 

 caterpillars under the burlap of trees. 



The new insect, mostly seen by peo- 

 ple on trees, and the one which has 

 largely been the object of everyone's 

 attack, is the Calosonia beetle, a hand- 

 some greenish, predaceous beetle, which 

 is one of the most valued enemies of 

 the gypsy moth the State foices have 

 been able to import. 



The adult female beetle lays her eggs 

 in the earth, where they hatch, and 

 the larva crawls to the surface hungry 

 and ready to tackle the first "gyp" or 

 brown-tail caterpillar it may find, or 

 a number of them for that matter. 



The larva is a black, smooth-skinned, 

 somewhat shiny sort of caterpillar, ex- 

 tremely active and wriggly, while the 

 adult beetle is quite large, powerful 

 and of a handsome bronze gi'een color. 

 The adult scales trees with great rapid- 

 ity in its search for the caterpillais, 

 and, having found one, uses its power- 

 ful legs to embrace the caterpillar as 

 it sucks out the juices from its body. 

 Often in its writhing the caterpillar 

 will cause the beetle to topple from 

 the limb to the ground, but the beetle 

 never lets go its hold and continues its 

 meal undisturbed by the fall. 



In order to learn accurately how 

 generally this imported beetle has 

 spread. Mr. Rane asks those who ob- 

 serve then to report the fact to his 

 office at 6 Beacon street, Boston. 



THE TUSSOCK MOTH. 



The white-marked tussock moth, for 

 many years a dreaded pest of village 

 and city shade trees, last year became 

 destructive in many apple orchards in 

 northwestern New York and was thus 

 brought strongly to the notice of Sta- 

 tion entomologists. Bulletin 312 of the 

 Station at Geneva gives an outline of 

 this outbreak, with brief descriptive 

 notes on the insect, and indicates the 

 repressive measures that should be 

 adopted. 



Copies of this bulletin may be had 

 free on application to {he New York 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, (Jen- 

 eva, N. Y, 



TO DESTFJOY MOSS ON LAWNS. 



The results of experiments conduct- 

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 Dahlem, and reported in Der Handels- 

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 5 per cent, solution of sulphate of 

 iron is effective of ridding lawns of 

 moss. After the application of the 

 green vitriol solution, the grass 

 should be sprinkled several times 

 with a weak (3 per cent.) solution of 

 nitrate of soda. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



San Francisco, Cal. — The MacRorie- 

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 tract for planting the ground belong- 

 ing to the Spring Valley Water Co. 

 in San Francisco and vicinity. Over 

 5,000,000 trees of various species will 

 be required to complete the work. 



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