THE GREEN JUNE BEETLE. 13 



October 8, 1912, James Kenny & Co., Kiversicle, N. J., wrote relative 

 to this grub as follows.: 



It is cutting the lawn around here every night, and also cuts the roots of 

 geraniums and other flowers. 



January 11, 1913, Mr. E. B. Cantrell, Winston- Salem, N. C, re- 

 ported that the grubs were very abundant in his garden; so much 

 so as to interfere with the growth of the plants. The two years pre- 

 vious Mr. Cantrell used stable manure freely on his garden and, as 

 he surmised, this was doubtless responsible for the appearance of 

 the grubs in such numbers. Writing March 18, Mr. Cantrell said : 



I have observed the grubs for a number of years and have never known them 

 to occur on any kind of land or injure any kind of crops excepting where stable 

 or lot manure had been used. Therefore their greatest numbers are to be found 

 in gardens. The grubs breed and thrive on manure and almost any crops 

 planted there. Especially in dry weather there is damage by them as they 

 plow up and make holes that cause plants to suffer for moisture. Sometimes 

 plants are cut off, tomatoes on the ground eaten, and especially have they in- 

 jured my celery. 



May IT, 1914, Mr. Edward T. Knight, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 reported injury by this grub to iris, which had been a source of 

 complaint about a year before. 



October 24, 1914, Mr. C. F. Turner, Bureau of Entomology, found 

 the grubs doing considerable damage in the gardens belonging to 

 Mr. L. G. Buckner at Memphis, Tenn. Corn, potatoes, turnips, 

 and eggplant were said to be attacked. Mr. Buckner wrote Novem- 

 ber 5, 1914 : 



The grubs in our garden keep the ground near the surface pulverized. A 

 rain, of course, packs the ground and in a day or two the ground is again 

 pulverized. We are not sure that the plants died because the roots were eaten 

 or whether it was the continuous working under and around them. They did 

 not bother the plants on top of the ground. We had a very fine patch of 

 turnips and they killed nearly all of them. They also ruined tomato vines 

 and English peas. They attacked fall potatoes, not killing the vines, but 

 I know they ate some of the potatoes ; however, not a great deal. Our garden 

 has been well fertilized with stable manure. 



During the same month Prof. James Troop, entomologist at 

 Purdue Experiment Station, received specimens from a correspond- 

 ent at Bedford, Ind., who reported that the larvse damaged endive. 

 The correspondent wrote October 27, 1914, as follows : 



The endive I have covered with a board to bleach. Frequently when I would 

 lift a board off of the endive I would see the worm disappearing in the hole out 

 of which his head had been protruding, and quite often they would in this 

 manner eat a third and often half of the bunch of endives. 



The correspondent had adopted two methods for bleaching the 

 endive — laying boards over the plants and bunching and tying up 

 the heads — but the grubs attacked only that under the boards. 



