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SUCCESSFUL FKUIT CULTURE 



perfect insect is too well known to need description, 

 being the large brown beetle that flies at night into our 

 open windows in May, called the May beetle or June 

 bug, and the larva, the large white grub that we find 

 in plowing turf land in the spring and summer. 



Remedy — To prevent injury, the land to be planted 

 with strawberries should be clean cultivated one or two 

 seasons before the plants are set, as the insects only, lay 

 their eggs in soil well supplied with roots for their 

 young to feed upon and avoid clean cultivated ground. 

 The Straiubernj Crown Borer (Tyloderma fra- 

 gariae) (Figure 133) — A small brown beetle about 



three - sixteenths 

 of an inch long 

 that lays its eggs 

 in June or July 

 about the crown 

 of the plants. 

 The eggs hatch 

 soon and the 

 larvae pass down 

 into the crown, 

 feeding upon the crown and surface roots, and become 

 perfect insects in August or September. 



Remedy — As this insect is in the larval state during 

 the middle of the summer, few or none of the eggs 

 will be laid in the newly set plants, and if the old bed 

 is turned under in July, most if not all of the larvae 

 will be destroyed by this operation. Thus where this 

 insect is abundant the annual method of cultivation 

 of the strawberry becomes a necessity. 



Spotted Paria (Paria sex-notata) — A rather 

 smaller beetle than the last, nearly black with three 

 light bars on each wing cover. It appears soon after 

 the fruit has set, feeding upon the leaves, and when 

 in large numbers causes considerable injury in the 



Fig. 133— Strawberry Crown Borer 



