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INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1903. 



Remedies: 



Large buzzing beetle. 



JUNE BUG. 



See page 75 under May Beetle. 



g. Large grayish Snout Beetle feeding on bud 

 and leaves in spring. 



NEW YORK WEEVIL. 



See Fig. 37. 

 Remedies: Arsenical poisons applied in time and thoroughly will 

 lessen their numbers. By jarring the tree and catching the falling 

 insects, as for the curculio, many can be destroyed. 



h. Large apple-green caterpillar, with a tail horn, 

 and with seven broad, oblique white stripes 

 along each side. 

 PLUM TREE SPHINX. 



Fig. 74. Fig. 75. 



Fig. 74. — Sphinx drupiferarum, S. & A. ; caterpiller. After Saunders. 

 Fig. 75. — Sphinx drupiferarum, S. & A. ; pupa. 



Fig. 76. — Sphinx drupiferarum, S. & A. Moth. Lugger. 

 Remedies: Hand picking is all that will be necessary. 



