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peas will germinate as readily as those that have been un- 

 touched. When full grown the larva * * * eats a circular 

 hole on one side of the pea, and leaves only the thin hull as a 

 covering. It then retires and lines its cell with a thin and 

 smooth layer of paste, pushing aside and entirely excluding 

 all excrement, and in this ceil it assumes the pupa state, and 

 the beetle when ready to issue has only to eat its way 

 through the thin piece of hull which the larva had left 

 covering the hole. It has been proved that the beetle 

 would die if it had not, during its larval life, prepared this 

 passage way, for Earnest Menault asserts that the beetle 

 dies when the hole is pasted over with a piece of paper even 

 thinner than the hull itself." 



Remedies. Take care that no buggy peas are planted. 

 Put them in water; the sound ones sink and the buggy ones 

 float on top and may be readily skimmed off. In localities 

 where few of your neighbors raise peas, or where they con- 

 sent to do the same as you, if you plant no peas at all for a 

 year or two the bugs will be effectually gotten rid of, or at 

 least lessened so that they will do comparatively little 

 damage. 



THE ASPARAGUS BEETLE. 



(Crioceris asparagi. Linn.) 



Hibernating in the adult state the females deposit their 

 first eggs in May. The larvse hatch in about a week. 



The eggs are blackish and the larvse a sombre ash color. 

 They feed on the bark on the young shoots of asparagus. 

 In the latter part of June they pupate in slight cocoons 

 under rubbish or in the earth. The second brood of larvse 

 emerge usually between August the 10th and 20th and the 

 beetles mature in September. 



