334 PESTS OF ORCHARD AND SMALL FRUITS 
The life round is much like that of the other species. The adults 
hibernate in any convenient shelter, and lay their eggs in the young 
fruit. The larva is a footless grub. 
Its body is enlarged in a sort of 
hump back of the head. It pu- 
pates in the soil, and the adults 
emerge in the latter part of sum- 
mer, soon going into hibernation. 
On small trees jarring is an effec- 
tive plan. On larger trees early 
spraying with arsenate of lead or 
Paris green will poison many of 
the beetles. Rubbish of all sorts 
Fire? —TheapsleCumiie. Be should be kept cleaned up, in order 
larged and natural size. Original. to eliminate winter hiding places. 
The Plum Gouger (Anthonomus scutellaris Lec.) 
The plum gouger is a brownish beetle, one fourth of an inch long, 
and may be distinguished from the plum curculio by the absence of the 
characteristic humps found on the wing 
covers of the curculio. 
Early in the season holes are eaten in the 
base of the flower, and the beetle feeds 
on the part 
within that 
would later 
become the 
fruit. After 
Fie. 518.— Feeding punc- 
the plums nae ture made by the Plum 
of some size Gouger. Original. 
the adult 
punctures them and lays an egg 
within, the g ivi insi 
Fic. 519.—The Plum Gouger. _ grub pape: mide Ane 
Neluth, -aalacned’ and nmtaral forming seed. The adult does not 
size. Original. make a crescent-shaped cut around 
