82 INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1903. 



Bases of buds perforated, the bark becomes discolored, and 

 the leaves and fruit wither. Do not confound with the fungus 

 "Fire Blight." 



PEAR BLIGHT BEETLE. 



Remedies: See page 60 under Apple Insects. 



Boring in the sap wood, a whitish worm, with a flat head. 

 Turns into a beetle, about i inch long, copper-colored. 



DIVARICATED BUPRESTIS. 



Fig. 69. — Dicerca divaricafa. Say. After Division of Entomology, U. S. Department 



of Agriculture. 



Remedies: Caustic washes applied to bark in order to kill the eggs 

 is the only remedy suggested. 



Pale-colored worm, with darker head and legs, boring in 

 trunk. Turns into a dark-colored, clear-winged, wasp-like moth. 



PLUM TREE BORER. 



Fig. lO.—Sesia pictipes, G. & R. Male. 



Remedies: Cut out and burn all infested parts if possible. 



