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prey of birds that pick off the perforated bark and 
eat both larve and beetles. Washes, both poisonous’ 
and offensive, are sometimes applied to the bark as a 
protection. 
ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 
THe Rose BEETLE OR Rose CHAFER, Macrodactylus 
subspinosus, Fabr., is so named from its fondness for 
roses, and its annual appearance is with the blooming of 
the damask rose. The beetle (Fig. 125) is about seven- 
twentieths of an inch long, with very long legs, pale red, 
and tipped with black feet. The body is covered with a 
short ash-colored down. It suddenly appears about the 
time when grapevines bloom, and is active 
from thirty to forty days, swarming upon 
its choice of plants, which vary somewhat in 
different years. Partial to flowers, it also 
feeds on leaves of a wide variety of trees, and 
choice fruits. The female beetle deposits Fig. 195, 
about thirty eggs an inch or two below the ®0SE BEETLE. 
surface of the earth ; these hatch in about twenty days. 
The larva is a white grub, which feeds on roots till 
autumn, when it goes below frost, returning in the 
spring to pupate in May near the surface of the ground, 
thus completing its life circle in a year. 
Remedies.—Prof. Riley found Hlateride larve de- 
stroyed the rose beetle larve. They are not affected by 
the arsenical poisons used for other pests, but yield to 
carbolic acid, one gallon to one hundred gallons of 
water, sprayed on plants they eat; and to scalding 
water and. kerosene. Dusting with air-slaked lime, 
or spraying with lime water, a peck to the barrel, is 
also recommended. 
TENT CaTERPILLAR (Clisiocampa Americana, Har.). 
—The moth is an inch and a half across the wings, 
which are ashy brown or a pale brick color, marked by 
two light lines obliquely across the fore wings. Their 
