334 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE STRAWBERRY. 



ATTACKING THE PKUIT, 

 No. 201, The Stalk-borer. 



Gortyna nitela Guenee. 



This larva, which is commonly found in the stalks of the 

 potato and tomato, may be said to have a rather varied taste, 

 as it also bores into the stalks of the dahlia, aster, and cockle- 

 burr, the cob of the Indian corn, and the fruit of the straw- 

 berry. In Fig. 347 we have a representation of the larva. 



FIG. 347. Fro 348. 



When it leaves the fruit or other substance it has occupied, it 

 descends a little below the surface of the earth, and in a few 

 days changes to a brown chrysalis, from which the moth (Fig. 

 348) emerges from about the end of August to the middle of 

 September. 



In case this insect should so multiply as to require a 

 remedy, hand-picking is the only one suggested. 



SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF INJURIOUS INSECTS WHICH 

 AFFECT THE STRAWBERRY, 



ATTACKING THE BOOTS. 



The larva of the goldsmith beetle, No. 77, and also that 

 of the May beetle, No. 113, attack the roots of the straw- 

 berry. The latter, which is commonly known as the white 

 grub, is frequently very destructive. 



