CLOVER WEEVILS. 



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In large leaved crops, such as Turnips and Eape, the methods 

 customarily employed for clearing caterpillars, such as brushing with 

 boughs fixed on scufflers, would seem the best to be employed. 



In Clover attack the only direct remedy which is mentioned as 

 having been tried was rolling. This killed a good many of the cater- 

 pillars, though it was not wholly successful. For Hops or tall-growing 

 plants or bushes where infestation was so severe as to make some 

 special treatment necessary, probably soft-soap wash and the washing- 

 engines would do all that was requisite, or in some cases shaking 

 down, or hand-picking, could be carried out at a paying rate. 



With some low-growing crops like Clover just started into second 

 shoot, a good liming, or other manurial application of a nature to be 

 good for the crop, and prejudicial to the grubs, could hardly fail to be 

 of service. 



But although the Plusia (jamma is such a regular yearly presence, 

 still we have so very few notes of it occurring as a serious crop pest in 

 this country, that it may well be hoped it will continue to give us only 

 occasional trouble, and that the inexpensive treatment of being careful 

 that starlings, thrushes, and other birds which may congregate, to 

 clear off the caterpillars or moths when they appear in unusual 

 numbers, will be all that is required. 



" Yellow-legged," or " Dutch Clover Weevil. Apiunflavipes, Fab. 



Clover Pear-shaped Weevils. 



1, maggot, feeding, magnified; 2 — 7, maggot, pupa, and beetle of Apion apricans ; 

 8, 9, Apion assimile : all nat. size and magnified. 



The following observation refers, firstly, to damage by the "Pear- 

 shaped" Weevils to Clover leafage, a branch of the mischief caused by 

 them, which, though known of, does not seem to occur, or at least not 

 to be observed, so often as that to the Clover seed, and of which I have 

 not previously had any note. In this case the damage was caused to 



