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FRUIT INSECTS 



the earth and hibernate as pupae under trash or in the soil near 

 the surface. 



Treatment. 



Experiments conducted in Ohio have shown that this pest 

 can be controlled by a thorough appHcation of arsenate of lead, 

 6 to 8 pounds to 100 gallons of water, made as the first beetles 

 appear. Thorough shallow cultivation of the soil in the fall 

 would doubtless destroy many of the pupae in their hibernating 

 quarters. 



References 



Fitch, Trans. N. Y. State Agr. Soc. for 1870, pp. 358-360. 

 Felt, 14th Kept. N. Y. State Ent., pp. 158-160. 1898. 

 Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 202. 1909. 



1872. 



Fig. 278. — A tree- 

 cricket ovipositing in 

 a raspberry cane. 



The Negro-bug 

 Corimeloena pulicaria Germar 



Blackberries, raspberries and strawberries 

 often acquire an unpleasant flavor from 

 having served as the feeding ground of a 

 small black sucking bug. The adult is 

 shiny black and has a white stripe on each 

 side of the body; it is about an eighth 

 of an inch in length. The female deposits 

 her orange-yellow, elongate, oval eggs singly 

 on the leaves of the plant. They hatch 

 in about sixteen days. The nymphs punc- 

 ture the tender fohage as well as the fruit, 

 sometimes causing a shght injury to the 

 leaves. On berries, however, they are 

 most troublesome because of the disgust- 

 ing odor which they impart to the fruit. 

 This insect is sometimes a serious celery 

 pest. 



