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INSECTS INJURIOUS TO GARDEN AND ORCHARD CROPS. 



REMEDIES. 



The most feasible method of treatment that suggests itself is the use 

 of* kerosene in some of its forms. A spray of kerosene emulsion, as 

 strong as the plant will bear without injury, would doubtless be effective 

 in the destruction of the bugs in all stages, or they might be jarred 

 from the plants upon which they are feeding onto sheets saturated with 

 kerosene or into pans of water on which a thin scum of kerosene is 

 floating. 



For the mechanical method of treatment it would be preferable to go 

 over the infested plants early in the morning or late in the day before 

 dusk, when the insects are less active than in the bright sunlight. 



THE IMBRICATED SNOUT-BEETLE. 



(Epiccerus imbricatns Say.) 

 RECENT INJURY. 



Specimens of this snout-beetle were received May 10, 1898, from Mr. 

 David Font, Garfield, Ark., with the information that they were very 



Fig. 14. — JEpiccerus imbricatus: a, female beetle; 6, same from side; c, newly hatched larva; d, same 

 from side; e, egg; /, egg mass. — a, &, about three times natural size; /, two times; c, d, e, more 

 enlarged (original). 



destructive to strawberry plants, eating the leaves and afterwards the 

 entire stem. They appeared in that vicinity about April 10. From 

 material received at this time eggs and larvae were obtained, from 

 which certain studies were made and the accompanying illustrations 

 prepared. 



There is at least one other record of this beetle being injurious to 

 strawberry— that published by Messrs. Osborn and Mally (Bui. 32, Iowa 

 Agr. Coll. Expt. Sta., p. 395). Although the species, in its adult state, 

 at least, is what is termed a general feeder, these two instances will 

 serve to secure it a permanent place in the list of enemies to this fruit. 

 From its wide distribution and its omnivorousness it has received 

 frequent mention in literature in spite of its being only periodically 

 destructive, and only in the adult condition so far as known, since the 

 time of its first notice as an injurious insect thirty-five years before 

 the time of the present writing. 





