CKANBEKRY INSECT PROBLEMS. 



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letin for grasshoppers (p. 2T) or spraying ^^•ith some arsenical may 

 1)0 found serviceable in reducing the numbers of the insects. 



CRANBERRY FLEABEETLE.^ 



On young plantings the small, black beetle Avitli red head, known 

 as the cranberry fleabeetle (fig. 17), is often disastrously injurious. 



beetle : Injury to cranberry foliage and fruit. 



During the summer following the setting out of new vines the beetles 

 attack the leaves, more often the lower sides, eating off the tissue but 

 leaving the veins, so that the leaves appear to have been skeletonized. 

 (Fig. 18.) This feeding may be so severe as to render replanting 



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Systena fronlalis Fab. 



