1899] STRAWBERRY. 146 



number gradually diminished to two or three, and now none at all." 

 The above note not only shows the success of this simple plan, but also 

 the vast number of beetles present, when they could be often caught 

 in "half-basinfuls." Another method by which ''enormous numbers'' 

 of the beetles were caught at the Woburn Experimental Fruit Ground 

 was by obtaining a number of empty condensed milk tins, and, after 

 placing about half an inch of tar in the bottom of these, plunging 

 them iu the soil by the plants level to the rims. 



Another simple method of trapping, by turning the habits of the 

 beetles as carnivorous as well as fruit feeders to account, is placing 

 pieces of "flesh covered by pieces of thick sacking" amongst the 

 Strawberry plants, which attract the beetles, and thus many are caught 

 and killed. The smell of the meat, however, in the hot weather 

 usually accompanying the season of Strawberry ripening might be 

 objectionable. 



The specimens sent with observations of attack to Strawberries 

 last season were entirely of the winged Ground or "Bat" Beetle, 

 Harpalus rujicornis, but are unnecessary to give in externa, as they only 

 refer again to points such as the destructiveness and tlie method of 

 the attack to the Strawberry fruit, which has previously been fully 

 noticed. See my Annual Reports for 1894, 1895, 1897, and 1898. 



In one instance mention is made of beer and sugar being successfully 

 used as a bait in basins sunk in the ground, but, as the nature of the 

 attack does not appear yet to be generally known, it has appeared 

 worth while to refer to it again. 



Another kind of attack — namely, that of what are popularly known 

 as "Daddy Longlegs" grubs, scientifically the larvae of Tipula oleracea, 

 and also of T. maculosa — was reported as attacking Strawberrry roots, 

 and will be found noticed under the above heading — "Daddy Louglegs " 

 — at pp. 29-31 preceding, as the infestation attacking several kinds of 

 crops it is most convenient for reference to place the observations 

 together. 



