SOME INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FORESTS. 



Bureau of Entomology and the Forest Service in the investigation of 

 insect enemies of the black locust was proposed and adopted, b}- which 

 the subject is receiving special attention from the viewpoint of both 

 the forester and the entomologist, with the primary object of practical 

 results. 



CHARACTER OF THE INSECT AND ITS WORK. 



The locust borer is a whitish, elongate, so-called ' ' round-headed " grub 

 or larva (fig. 1), which hatches from an egg (iig. 2) deposited by a black 

 or brown and yellow striped long-horned winged ))eetle (fig. 3) found 

 on the trees and on the flowers of golden-rod from August to October. 

 The eggs are deposited in the crevices of the bark of living, growing 



trees from August to 

 O c t o b e r, and the 

 young borers (fig. 2, 

 /^, r) hatching there- 

 from mine into the 

 outer portion of the 

 living inner bark (tig. 

 5), where they pass the 

 winter, and in the 

 spring bore through 

 the ])ark into the .sap- 

 wood and heartwood. 

 Here they transform 

 in July and August to 

 pupcC (fig. 4) and in 

 August and Septem- 

 ber to adult beetles, 

 which soon emerge 

 from the trees and de- 

 posit eggs for the next 

 annual generation of 

 borers and beetles. 



The injury to the 

 trees (PI. 1) consists 

 of wounds in the bark and supwood which, if sufficiently severe or 

 repeated year after year, result in cither a stunted worthless growth 

 or the death of young and old trees, while the numerous w^orm holes 

 in the wood reduce its commercial value or render it worthless. 



The presence of the insect in injurious numbers is indicated (1) by 

 the frequency of the adults on the golden-rod flowers and on the trees, 

 from August to October; (2) by the slight flow of sap and by the 

 brownish borings where the young larvae are at work in the bark, 

 during April and May; (3) by the whitish sawdust borings lodged in 



Fiu. 1.— The locust borer {Oi/llenc rohinix): a, Inrvii, dorsal view; 6. 

 same, lateral view. Line at right represents natural length (origi- 

 nal). The larva in profile .should show minute prothoraoie feet. 



