CHAPTER IX 

 INSECTS AFFECTING THE BRAMBLES 



THE insects which attack brambles are many and 

 various, some serious, others but chance or general feeders. 

 Taken as a whole these fruits are less subject to injury 

 than many others, though at times considerable damage 

 may occur from the depredations of some of their enemies. 



In this discussion no exhaustive treatment of any of 

 them will be attempted. The more important facts con- 

 cerning their life-history, together with the most feasible 

 methods of combating them, are given in condensed form, 

 for the use of the busy man who may need to meet them 

 and do it promptly, with little time for investigation or 

 study. Slingerland and Crosby's " Manual of Fruit In- 

 sects," to which the reader is referred for a more complete 

 discussion of many of them, is drawn on largely for present 

 knowledge and recent methods of control. 



THE TREE-CRICKET 



(Ecanthus nigricornis, Walker 



The work done by this insect was, until recently, attributed to 

 another species, the snowy tree-cricket, which is now found to limit 

 its work chiefly to apple and other fruit-trees. The insect is a deli- 

 cate, greenish-white, long-horned cricket, with broad and trans- 

 parent wing-covers, through which the folded wings can be seen. 

 These wing-covers are crossed by oblique thickenings or ribs, which 



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