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destructive, but in most of the Northern United States, and in 

 Canada, although common on thorn-bushes and crab-apples, it 

 seldom attacks the more valuable fruits to any considerable ex- 

 tent." 



THE CRANBERRY CURCULIO. 



(Ant/ioiioi/ius suturalis Lee). 



About the middle of July we can find numerous beetles of this 

 kind in the blossoms of this plant, but the} are also found upon 

 many other kinds. The small beetle is very variable in color, but 

 is usually reddish-brown, with a dark brown head, and a beak 

 about half as long as its body. The pro-thorax is darker than 

 the elytra, and is covered with short, whitish hairs ; the elytra are. 

 ornamented with rows of indented dots, and are in most cases 

 black along the suture, which color sometimes forms a triangular 

 spot in the middle, of which the whitish scutellum is the center. 

 The beetle measures a little over one-eighth of an inch in length, 

 including the rather long beak. When the female has selected 

 the bud of a blossom she drills, with the snout, a hole through 

 the center, and in this hole she deposits a pale yellow egg. This 

 done, she cuts off the flower stem, which drops to the ground ; the 

 egg hatches a dull white grub with a yellow head armed with 

 black jaws with which it devours the inside of a bud, eventually 

 eating its way out, leaving a round hole in the side of the bud, 

 and transforms to a pupa, and soon afterwards to a perfect beetle, 

 which may sometimes be seen feeding upon the berries. 



The only remedy in such a case is to flood the cranberry 

 swamp, which will drown the larvae and pupae. 



THE STRAWBERRY CURCULTO. 



i 



( Anthonomus signatus Say). 



This is one of the most troublesome of the strawberry insects, 

 but as yet is found only in very limited numbers in our state, 

 preferring here to feed in the blossoms of the wild plants. Its 

 history is well known, and the writer had the doubtful pleasure 

 of first observing its actions while assistant of Prof. Riley in Mis- 



