RASPBERRY BEETLE. 



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Plums before the caterpillar within can leave them to bury itself. 

 This may be done by jarring or shaking the trees, so as to cause the 

 damaged fruit to fall, and having this fruit immediately gathered 

 together and destroyed before the grub within escapes. Or the 

 infested fruit may be picked from the trees by choosing such of the 

 little unripe Plums as show a black spot, where the sap and black 

 rejected matter from the grub have run down its tunnel and show at 

 the outside. 



Also it is stated that the black Sawflies are sluggish, and when 

 they are occupied in egg-laying, or in sucking honey from the Plum 

 blossoms, that they may be caught by hand where they are in reach on 

 low-growing trees. 



RASPBERRY. 



Raspberry Beetle. Bytunis tomentosus, F. 



Byturus tomentosus. 



Easpberry Beetles, much magnified, with line showing nat. length ; maggot, 

 magnified, with line showing nat. length, after sketch by Prof. Westwood. Easp- 

 berry fruit. 



The Byturus tomentosus is a small beetle of some shade of brown, 

 which may vary from pitchy to reddish or yellowish, but covered with 

 such a thick yellowish or grey down as to conceal the ground colour. 

 The horns (which are thickened towards the extremity so as to be 

 somewhat club-shaped) and the legs are reddish yellow, or reddish 

 yellow with a brown tinge. 



These beetles are to be found in spring (after they have developed 

 from the chrysalis state) infesting various kinds of flowers, but 

 especially those of Raspberries. Here they do an immense amount of 



