CURCULIO. APPLE-TREE BORER. 



225 



Fig. 59. 



Fig. 60. Fig. 61. 



apple and other fruit, and cause it to fall off. 



The windfalls should be picked up often and 



given to swine, or if convenient, the swine 



may be turned into the orchard to pick them 



up. The grub will thus be prevented from 



going into the ground. Old cloths may also be tied in 



the crotches of the limbs of fruit trees. The worms take 



refuge in them and may be killed. 



797. The curculio, (Figs. 60 and 

 61, the small line between them 

 showing the natural size,) does much 

 injury, attacking the plum particu 

 larly. Fruit bitten by it may be 

 distinguished by a little crescent- 

 shaped mark, and should be collected 

 and burned. If sheets be laid under the trees, and the 

 trees then be shaken, the insects will fall into the sheets 

 and may be put into hot water. If chickens in coops be 

 kept under the trees in summer, they will destroy immense 

 numbers, as do the small birds also ; toads and bats too 

 do good service in this way. 



798. The apple-tree 

 borer, (Fig. 62,) with 

 its larva, (Fig. 63,) is 

 ruining many an orchard 

 where his presence is not suspected, and 

 trees should frequently be examined that it 

 may be discovered as soon as possible. 

 The borer enters the tree just at the surface of the 

 ground, and by removing the soil and rubbing the bark 

 with a coarse cloth after the first of September, the 

 young insect may easily be destroyed. 



Fig. 63. 



Fig. 62. 



