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June Bug (Lachnosterna sp.) 



June Bug 



(Lachnosterna sp.) 



The larva of this beetle are the white grubs so well known in 

 our gardens. They live in the ground about two years, when 

 after a season of pupation in the spring, they assume the adult 

 form of medium sized brown beetles, and feed on the leaves of 

 fruit trees and similar growth for a short time, during which they 

 deposit their eggs in the soil and die. Their work on small trees 

 is often quite injurious while they last. 



Poisoning the foliage with arsenical sprays is the best means of 

 combating them. 



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Wire-worms, larva and adult. 



Wire Worms 

 (Elateridae) 



These long, slim, brown, hard shelled worms, found a few inches 

 below the surface in grass or grain land, are not usually very 

 injurious, but when the land is used for trees or some new crop, 

 and the old food plants are gone, they may do much harm. Young 

 fruit trees, set in old grain fields, are sometimes attacked by them 

 just below the surface and much injured, and even girdled and 



