EUROPEAN FRUIT EULECANIUM 



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to be the only practical remedy. This beetle also attacks the 

 fig, in which connection it is known as u The Fig Eater." 

 Supplementary list of peach insects. 



Codling moth 

 Peach saw fly 

 Pear thrips 



Plum curculio 

 Tent caterpillars 

 White peach scale 



ATTACKING TRUNKS AND BRANCHES OF THE CHERRY 



The Flat-headed Cherry-tree Borer or Divaricated Buprestis is 



discussed on page 117; it attacks several of the stone-fruit trees. 



The Cherry-tree Scale or Bark-louse. This black scale (Eule- 



canium cerasifex Fitch) is found on the lower side of limbs 



FIG. 149. The southern June-beetle, or fig eater: a, adult; 6, grub; c, pupa in cell; 



d, empty cell. 



of the cherry tree. Egg masses are produced under the scale, and 

 the young, upon hatching, in the early summer, spread over the 

 tree, attaching themselves finally to the under side of tender 

 branches, where they soon cover themselves with a scaly secretion. 

 The adult stage is reached before the beginning of whiter. 



Control. The usual summer and whiter treatment for scale 

 applies in the case of this insect. 



The European Fruit Eulecanium. This scale is somewhat 

 similar to the preceding insect, and is a related species, E. corni 

 Bouche. It injures the tree by sucking the sap therefrom and thus 

 interferes with the growth. The adult scale is one-eighth of an 



