Insects, etc., Injurious to the Strawberry. 



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killed ; and all brown pupae turned up in digging should be crushed. 

 Vaporite has been found effectual in killing these larvae. Soot 

 and lime seem to be quite useless. Where strawberries or logan- 

 berries are seen to be falling, the earth should be scraped away 

 just around them, and the culprits can easily be seen if they are 

 cutworms and destroyed. 



[E. Towje 

 FIG. 298. EGGS OF THE YELLOW UNDERWING. (X 20.) 



THE STRAWBERRY LEAF BUTTON MOTH. 



(Pcronea comariana. Zeller.) 



A single instance only has been recorded of this Tortrix doing 

 any damage to cultivated strawberries. The record is given by 

 Ormerod (1) as follows : " The following observations refer to the 

 attacks of a small moth caterpillar which some years ago did much 

 mischief to strawberry leafage in the neighbourhood of Dee Banks, 

 Chester. The notes were kindly forwarded to me by Dr. Ellis of 

 Liverpool, to whom they had been communicated by Mr. Richard 

 A. Wrench of Dee Banks. They are as follows: "I enclose 

 specimens of a grub which infests the strawberries about here and 

 does a great deal of harm ; the bulk of the strawberries for Liverpool 

 market are from here. I may say it usually makes its appearance 

 about the beginning of May and lasts until about the end of August, 

 when it goes away. 



" Young plants of twelve months old are never affected, two year 

 old plants are affected rather badly, but three year are invariably 

 ruined. I have two fields adjoining one another, the old field utterly 



