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Control. — The clover stem-borer has not yet attracted much at- 
tention as an injurious insect. Such effects as it produces are not of 
the violent sort which attract notice. For a time I was in doubt as to 
whether the lodging of the plants was due in any degree to this in- 
sect ; later, I found that affected stems do not lodge until they get 
large, but then fall sooner than unaffected stems. 
Every year the farmer unknowingly kills off large numbers of 
these insects when he cuts his hay crop, whether he cuts it early or 
late, for in the latter part of June and thruout July in this latitude 
the great majority of the insects are inside the clover stems as larvae 
or pupse. The old beetles from the previous year are practically gone 
by July 5. and the new beetles do not issue from the stems until about 
the first of August. If the cutting of the hay crop is neglected, how- 
ever, and left far into July, much of the clover will be flat on the 
ground from the work of this insect. I had this tested on the uni- 
versity farm, and when the clover was cut, heard, from the man who 
mowed the field, certain appropriate comments upon the amount of 
clover which had lodged. 
If the red clover is cut when it should be — to make, the best fod- 
der — only about three stems in one hundred of the new growth will 
show the insect. To find many larvse in July and early August one 
has to search in uncut field-clover, or in clover growing wild on the 
border of a field or by the side of the road or the railroad track. The 
practice of mowing and destroying volunteer clover is well worth the 
Httle time that it takes. 
Languria mozardi Latr. 
1880. Comstock, I. H.— Rep. [U. S.] Comm. Agr., 1879, pp. 
199, 200. 
1881. Lintner, J. A.— Fortieth Rep. N. Y. State Agr. Soc, 1880. 
pp. 18-20. 
1890. Weed, C. M.— Amer. Nat., Vol. XXIV.. p. 867. 
Weed, C. M.— Bull. Ohio Agr. Exper. Sta.. Sec. Ser., Vol. 
III.. No. 8. pp. 235-238. 
Chittenden. F. H.— Insect Life, Vol. II., pp. 346, 347. 
Clover Sitones 
Sit ones Have sc ens All. 
This small brown curculio eats the leaves of clovers and alfalfa, 
and its white footless grubs feed at the crown or at the roots of the 
same plants. It has rarely been reported as injurious in this country, 
but needs to be watched, nevertheless. 
The species is abundant in the Atlantic states, especially near the 
seashore, is on record from Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota, 
and doubtless has a much wider distribution. Everything indicates 
that it came from Europe, where this and other species of the genus 
are injurious to clover and lucerne (alfalfa). 
