DWARFING OR SCARRING THE FRUIT 



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under the skin of the fruit. Infested fruit usually falls to the ground. 

 When full grown, the maggot bores out of the berry, enters the 

 ground, and remains there until the following spring, when the adults 



issue once more. 

 The use of poultry to pick up 



Fig. 548. — Section through currant, 

 showing work and larva of the Cur- 

 rant Fruit-fly. Enlarged. Original. 



the fallen infested fruit is prac- 

 tically 



Fig. 549.— The Currant Fruit-fly 

 Adult, enlarged and natural size 

 Original. 



the only 

 available 

 remedy, 



unless it is feasible to have the fruit gathered 



by hand. 



The Tarnished Plant-bug 



(Lygus pratensis Linn.) 

 A brownish bug, not over one fifth of an 

 inch long when full grown, occasionally 

 injures the buds and the young fruit on 

 apple trees by sucking the juices. Buds are 

 dwarfed or killed, and sometimes the fruit 

 shows marked dimples or similar deformities, 

 due to egg-laying punctures of the adults. 

 The adults hibernate in rubbish. If the 



Fig. 550.— Work of a Plant- 

 bug, Lygus invitus. Orig- 

 inal. 



