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ATTACKING THE TEUIT, 

 No. 237. The Cranberry Fruit-worm. 



This is the caterpillar of a small moth related to the leaf- 

 rollers, and is shown in Fig. 387. It is of a yel- 



T . A . FIG. 387. 

 lowish-green color, and appears early in August, 



when it injures the fruit, entering berry after berry, 

 eating the inside of each, and making it turn pre- 

 maturely red. It attains its full growth by the 

 beginning of September, when it buries itself in the 

 ground, where it forms a cocoon covered with grains 

 of sand, scarcely to be distinguished from a small 

 lump of earth, within which it changes to a chrys- 

 alis. Flooding is the only remedy suggested for this insect. 



No. 238. The Cranberry Weevil. 



Anthonomus suturalis Lee. 



About the middle of July, or just before the blossoms are 

 ready to expand, this weevil appears. It is a small, reddish- 

 brown beetle, with a dark-brown head and a beak half as 

 long as its body, shown in Fig. 388. The thorax is a little 

 darker than the wing-covers, and is sparingly 

 covered with short whitish hairs ; the wing- FIG. 388. 

 cases are ornamented with rows of indented 

 dots. The beetle is a little over one-eighth of 

 an inch long, including the beak. Having 

 selected a blossom-bud about to expand, it 

 drills a hole through the centre with its snout, in which is 

 deposited a pale-yellow egg. The bud is then cut off by the 

 beetle at the stem, and drops to the ground, and within it the 

 egg hatches to a dull-white grub with a yellow head and black 

 jaws (see Fig. 388), which feeds upon the bud, and, passing 

 through its transformations, produces the perfect beetle, which 

 eats its way out, leaving a round hole in the side of the de- 



