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under the skin of the fruit. Infested fruit usually falls to the ground. 
When full grown, the maggot bores out of the berry, enters the 
ground, and remains there until the following spring, when the adults 
issue once more. 
tically 
Fig. 549.— The Currant Fruit-fly. the only 
Adult, enlarged and natural size. available 
Original. 
remedy, 
unless it is feasible to have the fruit gathered 
by hand. 
The Tarnished Plant-bug 
(Lygus pratensis Linn.) 
A brownish bug, not over one fifth of an 
inch long when full grown, occasionally 
injures the buds and the young fruit on 
apple trees by sucking the juices. Buds are 
dwarfed or killed, and sometimes the fruit 
shows marked dimples or similar deformities, 
due to egg-laying punctures of the adults. 
The adults hibernate in rubbish. If the 
The use of poultry to pick up 
Fig. 548. — Section through currant, 
showing work and larva of the Cur- 
rant Fruit-fly. Enlarged. Original. 
the fallen infested fruit is prac- 
Fig. 550.—W ork of a Plant- 
bug, Lygus invitus. Orig- 
inal, 
