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JOURNAL OF AGEICULTUEE OF P. E. 



EGGPLANT LEAP MINER {Acvocercops sanctcBcrusis) . 



The leaves of the eggplant are also mined by another caterpillar, 

 a small, red caterpillar that makes a small, somewhat blotch-shaped 

 mine and causes a peculiar puckering of the leaf around the mine. 

 Tliey often occur in numbers in the same leaf, and are easily distin- 

 guished from the preceding species which 

 makes a much longer mine. 



The adult is a very small moth with 

 brownish front -wings banded with white, 

 and feathery, brown hind-wings. 



Control. — The parasites of this insect 

 are very abundant and keep it well under 

 control at all times. 



THE EGGPLANT PTEM BORER , 



{Baris torquatiis). 



This weevil is a pest of both the wild 

 and cultivated eggplant. The adult bee- 



FiG. .52.— Tobae.o Flea-Bee- ^i ^^Yiich is a small black-and-white marked 

 adult; b. larva; c, pupa. ' i p i- 



tie {Eyitrix panula). <7 * weevil, feeds to some extent upon the toli- 

 (U. S. Biir.>;ni of Ent,-- while the grub-like larva bores in the 



molom-. ) '^ ' 



stem and branches of the eggplant, some- 

 times causing its death. 



The l)eetle lays its small, oval, white eggs in a crescentic slit in 

 the stem ;;i)(l in v few days these hatch into small, white, legless grubs 



that begin at once to bore in the stem. 

 W^ '~^ ' ■ """'" [ Control. — Affected branches should 



"**■ be collected and destroyed. The adult 

 l)eetles may be hand picked. 



EGGPLANT BUD WEEVIL 



{Aiillionomus pulicarius). 



Tlie eggplant is also attacked by 

 ai'.otliei- weevil that feeds on the leaves 

 and breeds in the flower buds. 



T]i<> eggs of this species are laid in the young developing buds, 

 and the small white legless larvae develop within the bud, causing 

 it to dry up and drop off. Several grubs may develop in one flower 



Fig. .1:^.— Leaf Folder (Pacliy- 

 -inu-hi pfrinsali.^.) Adtil-t. 



