Insect.-;, pIc, Tvjurious to llir Slrairhrrnj. 



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killed ; and all Imnvii pup^r turned Tip in di--in- should lie enished. 

 A'aporite has lieeu hamd elleelual in killing these larva-. Soot 

 and^liine seem to he .luite useless. Where strawlierries or logan- 

 herries are seen to he failing, the earth should be scraped awn,\' 

 just around them, and the (ailprits can Ciisilv he seen it they are 

 cutworms and destroyed. 



FtG. -.iiis.— ii(; 



THE YEl.MIW liMiliKHI.MI 



THE STRAWBERRY LEAF BUTTON MOTH. 



(Frroiii'd ciiiiiiiriii iia, Zellcr.) 



A single instance only has been recorded of this Tortrix doing 

 any damage to cultiyaled strawherries. The record is given by 

 Ormerod(l) as folio \ys : — ''The follo\ving oliser\'ations refer to the 

 attacks of a small moth caterpillar which some years agn did mncli 

 mischief to strawberry leafage in the neighbourhdod of 1 )ee Hanks, 

 Clrester. The notes were l\indly forwarded to me liy 1 >r. Ellis ijf 

 Liverpool, to wdioni they had been communicated Ijy llr. Lichard 

 A. Wrench of l)ee Lanks. They are as follows: — "1 enclose 

 specimens of a grub which infests the strawberries about liere and 

 does a great deal of harm ; the Ijulk i.if the strawjjerries for Liverpool 

 market are from here. I may say it usually maizes its apjpearance 

 about the beginning of May and lasts until about the end of August, 

 when it goes away. 



" Young plants of twehx' montlis old are never allected, twci year 

 old plants are affected rather badly, but three year are invarialjly 

 ruined. I have two fields ailjoiidng one another, tlie old field utterly 



