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PARIA ATERRIMA INJURING STRAWBERRIES. 89 
ceive plants from all parts of the country that have been injured by it. 
The injury it does by boring into the crown is as nothing compared with 
what it does to the roots, eating off the bark and fine roots. Soon after 
the roots areinjured the leaves get rusty and finally die. Theinner leaves 
lose their glossy and healthy appearance. Where they are plenty they 
will injure the roots of young runners almost as fast as new plants are 
formed. Itiscommon to find arunner with four or five plants, the oldest 
of which willhave its roots ruined, the next two more or less damaged, and 
the youngest uninjured. Plants set in spring to be grown in hills wil 
flourish till July, or August, then send out weak, slender runners, com- 
mence to rust, and almost die. These larve never bore down the cen- 
ter of the crown, but down and part way around the outside and some 
times horizontally into the center. I am not sure it is the crown-borer 
atall. A few years ago I] received plants from Dimondale, Mich., where 
Professor Cook first saw the strawberry-root worm. If this is it J have 
had it ten yearsin thistown. The plants I speak of were greatly injured 
the first season, so that I had to remove them. As soon as I see a bed 
where this pest is at work I can tell by the rusty, sickly appearance of 
the foliage. 
There is another worm that damages my plants to a great extent, but 
itis not confined to the strawberry. It eats potatoes, carrots, or any roots, 
and is very fond of celery. When it works on strawberries the foliage 
is apt te lose its dark glossy green look, and become almost variegated, 
yellow and green. The leaves do not attain their fuli size, and have a 
warped appearance, like a thin piece of steel made red hot and thrown 
into water. These worms are about three-fourths of an inch im length, 
not thicker than a pin, brown color, with many legs, and almost as hard 
as wire. Early in the spring I find many without legs, almost white, 
and less lively than the ones I describe. 
Many of my plants are perforated by a little bug or beetle about one- 
fourth of an inch long, in shape resembling a striped cucumber bug, and 
of a dull yellowish color. J saw plenty of them two months ago, making 
holes in the tenderest leaves, and now I see many of theirholes. Isit the 
crown-borer? 
I would like to know where the eggs of these larveare laid. I have 
found that young plants taken up in July and washed clean and planted 
in a new bed are sometimes badly injured the same fall, but cannot tell 
whether the eggs were attached to them or not.—|M. CRAWFoRD, Cuy- 
ahoga Falls, Ohio, October 9, 1883. 
[The larve were not those of the Strawberry Crown-borer (Analects 
Sragarie), but belonged to a little beetle known as Paria aterrima, the 
same species mentioned by Professor Cook in his address before the 
Ingham County Horticultural Society, aud described in the American 
Entomologist for October, 1880. The other worm mentioned and which 
was not confined to strawberries, was the common Julus multistriatus, 
one of the commonest of the ‘‘ thousand-legged worms.” | 
