INSECTS INFESTING THE APRICOT. 



CHAP. 



The Red-bodied Saw Fly (Doients tfijonicus).12 

 The Apricot Leaf-roller (Dickcelia cali/orni- 



atia) 73 



The Striped Bud-beetle (DUonycha Umbi- 



collis) .-... 74 



The followini,' insects also infest the Apricot : 

 The Greedy Scale (A>ipidiotui rapax). 

 The Pear tree Scoly tus (S;oli/tii'i pyri). 



The Branch and Twig-burrower (Polycaon con- 



fertus). 

 The Peach Moth (Ananda lineatclla). 

 The Robust Leaf Beetle (Serka valida). 

 The Buffalo Tree-hopper (Ceresa btibaUn). 

 The Red Spider (Tetranychui telariua). 

 The Plum Curculio {Conotrachelui Jienuphar) 

 The San Jose Scale {Anpidiotun pernicioswi). 

 The Black Scale (Lecanium olem). 

 The Cottony Cushion Scale (Irerya purchati). 



CHAPTER LXXII. 



The Red-bodied Saw Fly. (Cal.) 



(Dolerus lejonicus. — Norton. ) 



Order, Hymenopteka ; Family, TEXXHREDixiDiE. 



[A four-winged saw-fly with dark wings and a reddish body, 

 eating the leaves and shoots of young fruit trees.] 



About the loth of May, 1883, a young orchard planted in 

 1882, was attacked by this saw-fly (Fig. 110, Plate 1). The 

 owner of the orchard writes on the 3d of June : " The flies 

 injured my trees very much by eating the leaves and young 

 shoots off entirely ; many of the trees have sent out new 

 growths, but many have not, and appear as though they were 

 killed." 



The following is the description of this new pest : Head, 

 black ; antenna^ black, nine-jointed ; thorax reddish, hinder 

 portion and scutellum black ; abdomen marked with black at 

 the base ; legs, black ; wings clouded with smoky or blackish ; 

 the veins and costa deep black ; length of body nearly half an 

 inch : spread of wings, three fourths of one inch. 



