﻿THE 
  IN'SECTS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  JERSEY. 
  387 
  

  

  Fig. 
  160. 
  — 
  Strawberry 
  weevil 
  and 
  its 
  work: 
  a, 
  shoot 
  of 
  strawberry 
  plant 
  

   bearing 
  punctured 
  buds; 
  b, 
  enlarged 
  eggs 
  at 
  c; 
  at 
  d, 
  larva; 
  e, 
  its 
  

   head, 
  much 
  enlarged; 
  f, 
  pupa, 
  enlarged; 
  g, 
  open 
  straw- 
  

   berry 
  flower 
  showing 
  work 
  of 
  beetles. 
  

  

  A. 
  signatus 
  Say. 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State; 
  much 
  more 
  common 
  in 
  the 
  

   southern 
  counties. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  strawberry 
  weevil 
  which 
  always 
  does 
  

   some 
  and 
  occasionally 
  serious 
  injury 
  in 
  Atlantic, 
  Cumberland, 
  Bur- 
  

   lington, 
  Ocean 
  and 
  Cape 
  May 
  Counties. 
  It 
  feeds 
  also 
  on 
  black, 
  dew 
  

   and 
  raspberry 
  and 
  occasionally 
  on 
  other 
  plants. 
  The 
  remedial 
  meas- 
  

   ures 
  are 
  cultural 
  in 
  most 
  part. 
  

  

  A. 
  musculus 
  Say. 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State, 
  not 
  rare 
  VII, 
  on 
  huckleberry. 
  

   A. 
  nigrinus 
  Boh. 
  Staten 
  Island 
  (Lg) 
  ; 
  DaCosta 
  VII, 
  16 
  (Brn) 
  ; 
  New 
  Jer- 
  

   sey, 
  on 
  horse 
  nettle, 
  "Solanum 
  virginiensis" 
  (W). 
  

  

  A. 
  scutellatus 
  Gyll. 
  Hopatcong 
  (Pm); 
  Caldwell 
  III, 
  15 
  (Bf 
  ) 
  ; 
  Orange 
  

   Mts. 
  (GG); 
  Newark 
  Dist. 
  (div) 
  ; 
  DaCosta 
  (Li) 
  ; 
  Anglesea 
  (W). 
  

  

  A. 
  juniperinus 
  Sanb. 
  Anglesea 
  (Li); 
  Bayside 
  IX, 
  22, 
  on 
  juniper 
  (W), 
  

   feeding 
  in 
  a 
  fungus 
  growth. 
  

  

  A. 
  rufipes 
  Lee. 
  Buena 
  Vista 
  (Li). 
  

  

  A. 
  disjunctus 
  Lee. 
  Gloucester 
  Co. 
  (W) 
  ; 
  DaCosta 
  VII, 
  16 
  (Brn) 
  ; 
  Atlantic 
  

  

  City 
  (Castle); 
  Bamber 
  IX, 
  1 
  (Dke) 
  ; 
  Chews 
  Landing 
  IX, 
  6 
  (W). 
  

  

  