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Jrojed by clearing away the earth and applying hot water to the 

 roots. 



GrapeVine Flea Beetle This is also known by the name 

 of "Thrips," and "Steel Blue beetle." It varies in color from steel- 

 blue to metallic green and purple. It is found in all parts of the 

 United States and Canada, and generally attacks the grape leaf on 

 the upper surface, which they riddle and destroy. The best rem- 

 edy is to destroy the grubs by an application of dry lime with a 

 common sand blowers or bellows. 



Tree Cricket This insect, of a delicate greenish, semi-trans- 

 parent white, deposits her eggs on the cane of grape, blackberry 

 and raspberry. The deposit of eggs may be known by a straight 

 longitudinal, contiguous row of punctures as if made by a pin. 

 This cricket will sever the grapes from the bunches just as they be- 

 gin to ripen, and often severs a whole bunch or so excoriates the 

 stem that it will not ripen. 



The remedy is to crush the cricket wherever you find him, 

 while the vineyardist should make it a business to search in the 

 winter time for all punctured twigs, and by burning them, prevent 

 their increase in the future. 



Grape Vine Plume During the latter part of May and 

 beginning of June, the leaves of the grape-vine may often be seen 

 drawn together by silken threads, and in the retreat thus made will 

 be found a small hairy caterpillar, which feeds on the tender leaves 

 of the vine. Whenever they become numerous, the only remedy is 

 hand-picking. 



Grape Vine Fidia A great foe to the grape-vine is the 

 above insect, which is chestnut brown in color, ana densely covered 

 with short white hairs. It resembles the rosebug, but is not the 

 same. It appears in June and has disappeared by the end of July. Its 

 mode of injuring the vine.is by cutting straight elongated holes one- 

 eight inch in diameter in the leaves, riddling the leaves to shreds. 

 Like the plurn curculio it will drop to the ground upon the slightest 

 disturbance, and this enables it to be readily kept in check. The 

 most efficient way of doing this is by the aid of chickens, which 

 pick them up greedily as fast as they can be shaken down. 



Grape Codling This may be distinguished from the curcu- 

 lio by its having six scaly legs near the head, eight fleshy legs at the 

 middle, and two at the extremity of the body, and by spinning a 

 tine web by which it lets itself drop whenever handled. Its pres- 

 ence is soon indicated by a reddish brown color on the side of the 

 green grape which it enters. It feeds on the pulp and seeds of the 

 grape, and when matured leaves the grape and forms its cocoon on the 

 leaves of the vine. They should be searched for early in the season 

 on the leaves. The second brood of worms, or those which infest 

 grapes, can easily be espied and destroyed in a healthy vineyard 1 , 

 but where a vineyard is affected with what is designated as the 

 "American Grape-rot," the grapes attacked by the codling are 



