Insects, etc.. Injurious to the Strawb 



errij. 



459 



It was found that the neighbourhood of the solitary mole run 

 which could be found in the infested area was practically free ironi 

 injury (^Yarburton), 



IIefehenoks. 



(1) Oniicro:!. E. A. ' HamlLook of Iiisucts rnjnrious to Oi-chard ami liush 



Fruits,' p. 2:-!;-! (1898). 



(2) Wnrlnnioii. Cecil. Annual Ivepoi't for 189."i of the Zoologist. Jouru. Koy. 



Agri. 8oe. of England, vol. VI., pt. lY., ord Se. (189r,i. 

 (o) Tlicdhiihl, F. I '. First Iteport on Economic Zoology (Ijritish IMuseum), 



p. 19 (190;i). 

 (4) Tlvohiihl, F. T. Eeport on the (Irohards and Fruit Plantations of 



Worcestfr:L;hire (AYorcestershire County Council), p. 1.1 (1906). 



THE STRAWBERRY LEAF BEETLE. 



I^Oii/j I'lircl/a tciirlld. Linn.) 



This again, like the Leaf Moth, has only been once recorded as 

 doing any harm. Orrnerod (1) received information of the damage 

 done by it from Hundred Acres, Wickham, Hampshire, with a note 

 that they were destroying the straw- 

 berry plants in the neighljourhood, and 

 that it was considered a new pest in 

 the hicality. 



This beetle is fairly common in this 

 country on willows, alders, etc. In 

 Germany Kaltenbach (2) records it from 

 the Meadow Sweet (S^iiraa vhnaiin) 

 and the Silver Weed (Potenti/tn 

 aitscriiia). The beetles of this genus, 

 seveiiil of which are harmful to forest 

 trees, feed in both larval and adult 

 stages upon the leaves. There they 

 do damage in two ways. The larva' 

 eat the lower or upper skin and 

 soft underlying tissues, leaving the 

 epidermis below them intact, like the 

 pear slugworm ; the leaves then present a curious spotted appearance. 

 The adults eat out irregular holes right through the leaves. 



The l.ieetles and larva.- may be found together in July. The 

 former are about -i, inch long, dull yellow to pale brownisli ; the head 

 is yellow with a l.iroad black stripe across it ; the thorax is yellowish 

 with a dark central furrow and a small round depression on each side 



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