REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



199 



If rains occur a second or even a third spraying may be of value. 

 Sometimes in dry weather a second spraying eight or ten days after 

 the first application will 

 destroy many additional 

 worms. The more of the 

 spring brood that are de- 

 stroyed the fewer there will 

 be to lay eggs for a second 

 or summer brood — the 

 brood that we find during 

 late fall and winter in late 



Fig. 13. — The Banded-legged Pirn- 

 pi* (Pi'mpfa unnulipes) — enlarged. [Af- 

 ter RiJey.] 



Fig 14. — The Delicate Long-sting (Macrocentrus 

 delicatulus)— enlarged. [After Riley.] 



apples. Two of these hymenopterous parasites that destroy the codling 

 moth are shown in Figs. 13 and 14. They are known as the Ring- 

 legged Pimpla (Pimpla annulipes) and the Delicate Long-sting ( Ma- 

 erocentrus. delicatulus). During the past summer the larva of one of 

 our lampyridse or " fire-bugs" was found feeding upon the apple worm 

 at Crete. 



A NEW STRAWBERRY SAW-FLY. 



In last year 's Horticultural Report, on page 207, attention was called 

 to a saw-fly that attacks and injures the strawberry plant. During the 

 present summer my attention was called to this insect by several per- 

 sons who have had strawberry vines suffer from its injuries. Here 

 in the city of Lincoln a couple small beds of vines were completely 

 stripped by the worms before berry time. 



A careful watch should be kept by strawberry growers for this in- 



