INSECTS INFESTING THE STRAWBERRY 



CHAP. 



The Strawberry Crown-borer (Analcis 



fragarUe) 143 



The Brown Strawberry Weevil {LUtronotus 



iievadicua) 144 



The Strawben-y Worm (Emphtjtus macu- 



latin) 145 



The Strawberry Leaf-roller (Anchylopera 



fragaricej 146 



The following insects also infest the Straw- 

 berry: 



Crane Flies iTlpida). 

 The Peach Moth {Anania Uneatellaj. 

 The Xe,?ro Bug (Corimekena pitlicaria). 

 The Raspberry Leaf-roller (Exarfema per- 



mundana). 



CHAPTER CXLIII. 



The Strawberry Crown-borer. 



(Analcis fragnrias — Riley. ) 



Order, Coleoptera ; Family, Curculionid.e. 



[Living in the roots of strawberry plants ; a whitish curved 

 grub or larva, about two lines long, with the head yellow ; 

 finally changing into a chestnut-brown snout-beetle.] 



Fig. 216. — Strawberry 

 ^^' ■ Crown-borer ; a, the lar- 



va, enlarge d — c o 1 o r, 

 white ; fe, the beetle, side 

 view, enlarged ; c, the 

 same, back view, en- 

 larged — color, chestnut- 

 brown. 

 The egg from which 

 this grub (Fig. 216a) hatches is probably laid upon the crown 

 of the plant, and as soon as hatched the grub burrow.* down- 

 ward into the pith. Here it remains until it ha^j acquired its 

 full growth, working in the thick, bulbous root : it undergoes 



