46 DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES. 
it is obvious that anything which will tend to mitigate or prevent 
these conditions will in turn largely prevent the borer’s presence. 
Therefore proper orchard management, keeping the individual trees 
in a good, clean, and vigorous condition of health, avoidance of 
mechanical injury when cultivating, and prompt treatment of wounds 
made about the body of the tree, are the surest ways to keep the 
orchard free from this insect. 
For its control in orchards already infested there is but one avail- 
able remedy, namely, cutting the worms or larve out of their bur- 
rows. This is best done in conjunction with the regular “ worming ” 
for the peach borer, the operator taking care to examine all portions 
of the trees from the roots up to the large limbs above the fork. In 
doing this it will be necessary to cut away portions of the bark, and 
wounds so made should be promptly cleaned and treated with some 
protective antiseptic, as thick Bordeaux mixture or the hme-sulphur 
wash. All rough, cracked, or diseased areas should be cleaned out 
and similarly treated, whether they are infested or not, as they form 
points of entrance for the borers and are in other ways a menace to 
the life of the tree. The “ worming” for this insect should be ar- 
ranged for the early spring, if convenient, as wounds made at that 
time heal more readily, and, besides, the larvee are then pupating in 
numbers and can be more easily gotten at. 
So far as known, other remedial treatments in the shape of caustic 
or preventive washes are practically worthless in the control of the 
insect, and their application would be merely a waste of money. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The following bibliography contains titles of practically all of the 
literature on the lesser peach borer. All of the articles have been 
seen and verified, excepting that of Grote (1882). 
1868. GrorE, AUGUSTUS RADCLIFFE, and COLEMAN T. ROBINSON. <Avgeria pictipes 
pn. s. <Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Philadelphia, Vol. II (1868-1869), pp. 
182-183, pl. 2, fig. 64. 
Original description ; poor figure of male. 
1879. Battery, JAMES S. The Natural History of Mgeria pictipes G. & R. 
<North American Entomologist, Buffalo, Vol. I, pp. 17-21, Pl. III. 
General account of injury to a plum tree, with notes on seasonal history 
and habits; descriptions of stages and figures. (Plate not seen.) 
1881. Epwarps, Henry. Ageria inusitata n. sp. <Papilio, N. Y., Vol. I, pp. 
201-202. 
Description of pictipes as a new species from New Hampshire and Massa- 
chusetts, under the name #geria inusitata. 
GrotrEe, AUGUSTUS RADCLIFFE. A/geria pictipes G. & R. <Bul. No. 2, Vol. 
VI, Geol. & Geograph. Survey, U. S. Dept. Interior, Washington (author’s 
edition), p. 257. 
Few references. Notes that the sexes are much alike and tells how they 
differ from those of male peach borer. 
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