392 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD 



white grub as it lies curled in its burrow. It is only about one- 

 quarter inch long, and legless, the body being white and the head 

 yellowish brown. The adult beetle is a small snout-beetle about 



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FIG. 328. A Delaware strawberry bed in summer of 1900, showing injury 

 by the strawberry root-louse. 



one-fifth inch long, of a dark color, with head and thorax nearly 

 black, and on each wing-cover are three black spots, the middle 



one being the largest and 

 separated from the others by 

 pale lines. According to 



\l tf\ \ nSOTSH Professor Garman the wings 

 if tl I Hnl are too small to be used for 

 flight and this doubtless ac- 

 counts for the slow spread 



of the pest. Injury has been 



G. 329. The strawberry crown-borer (Ty- rpr . nrfpr i f rnm Tllinni* TTpn 

 loderma fragrance Riley): a, larva; b, c, reported irom Illinois, Ken- 

 beetle enlarged. (After Riley.) tucky, Missouri, and Neb- 

 raska, but as the larvae might be readily shipped in plants, it is 

 quite probable that it has become generally distributed but has 

 not done sufficient injury to attract attention. 



Life History. The beetles appear during the latter part of 

 summer and fall and hibernate over winter in the soil, emerging 

 early the next spring. The eggs have not been observed, but are 



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