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 Attacking the Fruit — 



(a) Long legged, yellowish beetles eating holes in half-grown peaches — Rose 

 Cliafer (Macrodactylus subspinosus). 



(b) Large yellow, hairy beetles, eating holes in ripe peaches — Bumble 

 Flower-Beetle (Euphoria inda). 



(c) Small snout beetles making a puncture and crescent in the young fruit — 

 Plum Curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar). 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE RASPBERRY AND BLACKBERRY, Etc. 

 The Roots and Base of Canes — 



(a) Large grub over two inches long, boring large tunnels in the woody por- 

 tions of main root. The canes suddenly die — Giant Root-Borer (Prionus 

 laticollis) . 



(b) Canes at ,base of main root girdled by a yellowish white caterpillar in 

 late summer and autumn — Bramble Crown Borer (Bembecia marginata). 



The Canes — 



(a) Longitudinal row of punctures on canes — Snowy Tree-Cricket (Ecan- 

 thus niveus). 



(b) Tips of raspberry canes -waiting in early summer, due to a girdling of the 

 canes inside the bark — Raspberry Cane Maggot (Phorbia rubivora). 



(c) Tips of shoots of raspberry wilting,, two rows of punctures one inch apart 

 at base of wilted portion, with a small hole between. Canes are burrowed to the 

 base before autumn— Raspberry Cane Borer (Oberea bimaculata). 



(d) Swellings on canes of raspberry and blackberry — Red-Necked Cane- 

 Borer (Agrilus ruficollis). 



The Buds— 



(a) A small snout beetle, puncturing the flower stem close to the buds, and 

 also the buds— Strawberry Weevil (Anthonomus signatus). 



