es FLAT-HEADED,” milk-white borer, the larva 
or young of a small, slender, black beetle with 
bronze-red head and coppery red or golden thorax 
(“neck”), causes a reduction in the crops of rasp- 
berry, blackberry, and dewberry in the eastern half 
of the United States by its injury to the canes. The 
beetle, also, does some injury by feeding on the 
leaves of the plants. 
This insect may be controlled by cutting out the 
infested canes in the fall or winter, or in early spring 
before the beetles have emerged from them, and 
promptly burning the cuttings. Cooperation in the 
observance of this measure, including the same pre- 
cautions on wild plants, for successive years, is 
highly desirable. 
Washington, D. C. Issued September, 1922. 
