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dark lines. I have found the caterpillar and pupa of this 

 insect, but failed to raise the perfect moth. 



Remedy. — Use No. 28. Pick off" and destroy all infested fruit, 

 in addition to gathering tlie larva^. 



CHAPTER CXLII. 



The Gooseberry Midge. (Cal.) 



(Cecidomyia grossulariee — Fitch.) 



Order, Diptera ; Family, Tipulid.e. 



[Living in gooseberries, causing them to turn prematurely 

 red and to decay; a bright yellow footless maggot.] 



The midge which produce these maggots quite closely 

 resembles a mosquito ; it is only about one line to the end of 

 the closed wings, and is of a pale yellow color, the eyes black, 

 the legs yellow and dusky, and the wings are transparent and 

 faintly tinged with dusky. 



This midge or fl}" punctures the young gooseberries and 

 deposits therein one or more eggs. The maggots hatched 

 from these eggs are entirely destitute of feet, and are of a 

 bright yelhnv color. They assume the pupa form within the 

 berries ; the latter usually become prematureh- red, and drop 

 to the ground sometime previous to this. 



The only remedy Avhich suggests itself is to gather up and 

 destroy the fallen fruit shortly after it falls, or Ijefore the 

 maggots have ccnnpleted their transformations and escaped. 



Remedies as alxjve, and when the fruit is fully formed use 

 No. 5 or 7, and rejx'at in two weeks. 



