Insects, etc., Injurious to the Strawberry. 



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The shape is much like that of other Click Beetles. The head and 

 thorax are shiny black, the latter with grey pubescence, the wing cases, 

 legs and antenu;e are pale ochreous-brown 

 to ochreous-yellow. 



It is common all over Ireland, according 

 to Carpenter, and may be met with over 

 nK)st of England. 



It mainly occurs in clearings in wood- 

 lands, where specimens 

 may be readily swept 

 off tlie plants upon 

 which they live. The 

 record shows that they 

 were noticed m July 

 at Limavady burrowing into the fruit. 



The Adrastus has the foot claws toothed, 

 and thus is easily told from the common 

 Click Beetle (Ar/riotes). 



Other Click Beetles are injurious in tlie 

 wireworm or larval stage. 



Eeference, 

 (1) Carpenter, H. Injurious Insects and Other Animals observed in Ireland 

 during the year 1905. Eco. Proc. E. Dublin Soc., I., Part 8, p. 389 

 (1906). 



THE STRAWBERRY APHIS. 



{Siphunoiiliora fi'dija I'idla. Theobald.) 



The first intimation I had of this aphis was from Mr. Harvey S. 

 Bickham, who wrote me from Ledbury on the 6th of May, 1905, as 

 follows : " I am writing to ask if you will be so kind as to tell me 

 if the Green Fly, which is now attacking about two acres of ray 

 Stirling Castle strawberry plants, is likely to do any real damage to 

 the fruit crop, and if so, would it be practicable to wash, say, 20,000 

 plants (the blossoms are just coming out here and there). The aphis 

 appeared five or six days ago, so far as I can tell." 



These plants were set oat in February 1903 and were doubtless 

 infested then, winter eggs being present. Writing again on the 17th 

 of May, Mr. Bickham stated that he " thought from the presence of 

 a large number of winged aphides a few days ago, that the attack 

 was diminishing, but on carefully examining the plants to-day, I 

 have come to the conclusion that the attack has merely spread wider 



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