IKSECT EKEMIES. 131 



ATTACKING THE FLOWERS. 



22. THE PEAR-TREE BLISTER BEETLE (Pomphopcea 

 cenia, Say). This beetle is a little over half an inch 

 long, with head and thorax punctated, and a little 

 hairy. The roughened wing cases are marked with 

 two slightly elevated lines. The color is a greenish 

 blue. They eat the entire flower except the stamens. 

 They sometimes eat the tender leaves at the end of the 

 limbs. Besides the quince, they eat the blossoms of 

 the plum, cherry, etc. 



The remedy is to jar them down early in the morning, 

 and destroy them before the sun warms them to activity. 



23. A BEETLE just about the size of the asparagus beetle, 



Fig. 117. Fig. 118. 



PEAR-TREE BLISTER BEETLE. CHRTSOMELIANS. 



but with yellow-striped wing-covers like the cucumber 

 beetle, is a Chrysomelian that sometimes riddles the petals 

 of the quince. It eats the buds before the petals have ex- . 

 panded. They feed singly or in groups, and when dis- 

 turbed, hastily fly away. I first found them on the 

 quince in the spring of 1887. 



ATTACKING THE FRUIT. 



24. THE CURCULIO (Conotmchelus Cratcegi, Walsh). 

 This beetle is an indigenous insect. Its home is 

 the wild haw, from which it has come to be very 

 injurious to the quince. It is a little larger than the 

 plum curculio. The color is ash-gray, mottled with 

 ochre-yellow. It has a dusky, almost triangular spot at 



