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during the day hides in the soil. These weevils are crafty 

 creatures, falling off the plants the instant the latter are 

 touched, and simulating death. The best way to catch 

 them is to go quietly along the sides of the plants at night 

 with tarred sacks or boards, and to suddenly shake the 

 canes over them. A dark lantern or an electric hand- 

 lamp, the light of which can be flashed on, will cause the 

 weevils to drop on to the tarred sacks. Spraying at night 

 with arsenate of lead is a good remedy. Dressings of 

 soil fumigant raked into the soil by day will also kill the 

 weevils. The white, fleshy grubs of this weevil live in the 

 ground, and eat the roots of plants. 



Raspberry Gall Fiy (Lasiopteri rubi). Sometimes galls 

 or excrescences are found on Raspberry canes. These are 

 due to the presence of tiny orange larva?, which puncture 

 the tissues and cause the parts affected to become swollen. 

 Cut off and burn infested canes. 



Other Pests. The larvae of various moths, also Chafer 

 Beetles, feed on the foliage, but the harm they do is 

 very slight. 



Strawberry Pests. 



Eelworms. Two kinds of eelworms infest Strawberry 

 plants, and sometimes do serious injury to them. The 

 kind known as the Root Eelworm (Tylenchus devastatrix) 

 is a microscopic species of thread-like worm which infests 

 the tissues of the roots, and causes the plants to decay 

 and die. They are also to be found in decayed manure 

 and in sour, damp soils. Another kind, called the Cauli- 

 flower Disease Eelworm (Aphelenchus fragaria?), infests 

 the stems, leaves, and flower buds, causing the latter 

 especially to develop into a cauliflower-like mass of swollen 

 growths, and the entire plant to sicken and die. Here, 

 again, the eelworms live and breed in the tissues. All 

 diseased plants should be burnt, and the soil liberally 

 dressed with ground lime. Spent hops are particularly 

 liable to encourage the presence of eelworms. 



