THE GREEN JUNE BEETLE. 15 



looks as if it had been raked. I use stable manure, but within two years have 

 limed the soil. Right now I am plowing out my grub crop, turn the soil, pick 

 up, and throw to the chickens. I haven't anything in my garden this fall except 

 grub worms. 



INJURY BY THE GRUBS IN A GREENHOUSE. 



A single instance of injury by the grubs of this species in green- 

 houses was reported in November. 1898. Mr. W. E. Pray, Kinkora. 

 N. J., reported injury in his violet houses (31). The larvae were 

 first noticed soon after the plants had been put in the bed, and at 

 this time they seemed to do little if any harm, but the ground was 

 described as being fci kept well cultivated for 2 inches deep by their 

 movements." As the plants grew, the larvre, it is stated, began to 

 feed upon the fibrous roots, and w 7 ere so doing at the time of writing. 

 They were also said to devour the outside petals of the flowers which 

 rested upon the ground and frequently ate into the hearts of the 

 flowers, rendering them unfit for shipment. Specimens of violets 

 showing the reported injury were received with the grubs. A great 

 number of the flowers were descrioed as having been destroyed. It 

 was believed at the time that cutworms might be the real culprits, 

 but no definite conclusions could be reached. 



In this connection it should be noted that the grubs are frequently 

 brought into greenhouses with manure, and as a consequence of the 

 superheated indoor atmosphere the beetles issue practically through- 

 out the winter, as has happened at Norfolk, Va., and at Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



INJURY BY THE BEETLES. 



Attention has been drawn to the injurious attack of the beetles 

 to fruits. Of these, the thin-skinned fruits, especially figs, peaches, 

 and grapes, are most often damaged, other fruits which have been 

 listed being occasionally or slightly attacked. Injury to figs in 

 South Carolina, Georgia, and other southern States is an annual oc- 

 currence, and indeed one of the popular names of this beetle is " fig- 

 eater. '' From Pennsylvania southward come frequent reports of 

 injury to peaches, often to those which are quite sound, contrary to 

 the opinion of some authors that only decaying, partially decayed, or 

 overripe fruit is attacked. The green June beetle is a very well- 

 known grape pest, and Prof. H. Garman (32) reported injuries to 

 this fruit in Kentucky as follows : 



The common green June bug, well known to every Kentucky school boy, be- 

 comes very troublesome locally and occasionally by cutting the skins of grapes 

 and utterly destroying the fruit of whole bunches and even whole vines. On 

 the experiment farm at Lexington this pest would, if allowed to work unhin- 

 dered, destroy the whole crop of the early varieties in the experimental vine- 

 yard. It was formerly more troublesome than now, but is liable any season 



