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If early potatoes are planted among strawberries, the grubs 

 will be found largely in the hills of potatoes and may be killed 

 at digging time. 



STRAWBERRY CROWN-BORER (Tylodermafragariae). This 

 was quite fully described by Prof. Wm. B. Alwood, now of Vir- 

 ginia, in the report of the Ohio Station in 1887. He* describes 

 the adult as a small beetle, three-sixteenths of an inch long, 

 deep chestnut brown, a member of the curculio family. It lays 

 its eggs on the crown at the base of the leaves, probably in April 

 or May. The young grub, when hatched, eats its way into the 

 crown, where it spends its whole life tunneling through the 

 crown and destroying the plant. The beetle emerges in August 

 or early fall. The best preventive lies in washing plants before 

 setting, planting only on ground on which strawberries have not 

 been grown for a year and at a distance of a few rods from any 

 other strawberry bed. Burning old beds over after fruiting is 

 good. When plants are found infested they should be dug up 

 and burned. The beetle cannot fly and will not go far unless 

 carried. 



STRAWBERRY ROOT-BORER (Anarsia lineatella). Mr. H. N. 

 Starnes, of the Georgia Station, calls this the "crown miner.'* 

 He describes it as a "a minute reddish caterpillar, larva of a 

 small dark-gray moth, completely riddling the crown and larger 

 roots by tunneling in all directions through them." Professor 

 Alwood says that the affected plants are almost sure to die in the 

 fall, but, if they live till spring, they will be useless. The rem- 

 edy is rotation and digging up the affected plants and burning 

 them. 



STRAWBERRY ROOT- WORM. This is called by Mr. R. H. 

 Pettit, of the Michigan Station, the "strawberry root-borer" but 



