EATING INTO OR INJURING THE FRUIT BUDS 329 
vour the tender unfolding tissues, working at night and hiding by 
day. 
The remedy is a prompt application of Paris green or arsenate of lead 
to the trees, so as to coat the buds. Instead of this, or in addition to 
it, a little poison bran mash may be placed at the base of each tree. 
Occasionally the buds of greenhouse plants are attacked in similar 
manner. <A liberal dose of poison bran mash is then indicated, 
scattered on the the ground throughout the attack. 
The Imbricated Snout Beetle (Epicerus imbricatus Say) 
Occasionally a rather large snout-beetle, its wings banded in zigzag 
pattern with brown and gray, its snout short and broad, feeds on the 
buds or young foliage of tree or bush fruits. See page 167. The 
beetle cannot fly. The larva lives in the ground. 
Paris green or arsenate of lead applied early as a spray will check 
the insect’s work. 
The New York Weevil (Ithycerus noveboracensis Forst.) 
Large, gray snout-beetles, half an inch long and marked with black, 
appear on fruit trees in early spring, gnaw 
into the tender twigs, and eat into the base of 
buds. The larval stage is passed in the twigs 
of oak and hickory, and injury is always 
greatest on fruit trees close to woodland. 
Thorough spraying with Paris green or arse- 
nate of lead early in the spring when the buds 
. a ‘ Fie. 511.— The New 
are swelling is the only direct means of con- York Weevil. Slishitly 
trol. enlarged. Original. 
The Pear Thrips (Huthrips pyri Danl.) 
The pear thrips is a minute insect attacking the newly opening flower 
and leaf buds of pear, and, in California, those of prune, cherry, al- 
mond, peach, and apricot. 
The evidence of attack is a distorting, blackening, or complete killing 
