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banks, over grass, where they drop their eggs in large 

 numbers. 



The moth appears about the end of May to the middle of 

 June ; the caterpillar is to be found from the end of September 

 until April, and towards the end of April or in May it turns 

 to the chrysalis. 



I have never had specimens of this infestation as a Easp- 

 berry root attack, but I have had them in January, apparently 

 full-grown, with the information that the grubs were found at 

 the roots of the Strawberry plants, which they killed by eating 

 holes in the stems. 



Prevention and Eemedies. — Whether anything can be 

 done at a paying rate to get rid of the grubs does not yet 

 appear. With Strawberries and Kaspberries hand-picking 

 might answer, for children could be employed at a small cost, 

 and under superintendence. Trapping might very likely do 

 good, by arranging the baits of pieces of Potato, or Parsnip, 

 or anything the grubs were found to prefer to the crop they 

 were ravaging, in the same way as in garden trapping of 

 Wireworm, — that is, passing a stick through the bait, so as 

 to show where it has been buried a little below the surface, 

 and every two or three days raising the bait, clearing the 

 grubs, and reburying the piece of Potato, or whatever it 

 may be. 



Where circumstances admit of disturbing infested ground 

 in winter, so as to throw the grubs open to cold, or alternating 

 cold and thaw, this would get rid of great numbers. 



