PARIA ATERRIMA INJURING STRAWBERRIES 89 



ceive plants from all parts of the country that have bc^en injured by it. 

 The injury it does by boring into the crown is as nothing compared with 



what it does to the roots, eating off the bark and fine roots. Soon after 

 the roots are injured the leaves get rusty and finally die. The inner leaves 

 lose their glossy and healthy appearance. Where they are plenty they 

 will injure the roots of young runners almost as fast as new plants are 

 formed. It is common to find a runner with four 01 five plants, the oldest 

 of which willhave its roots ruined, the next two more or less damaged, and 

 the youngest uninjured. Plants set in spring to be grown in hills wil 

 flourish till July, or August, then send out weak, slender runners, 

 mence to rust, and almost die. These larvae never bore down the (en- 

 ter of the crown, but down and part way around the outside and some 

 times horizontally into the center. I am not sure it is the crown -borer 

 at all. A few years ago I received plants from Dimondale, Mich., where 

 Professor Cook first saw the strawberry -root worm. If this is it I have 

 had it ten years in this town. The plants I speak of were greatly injured 

 the first season, so that I had to remove them. As soon as I see a bed 

 where this pest is at work J can tell by the rusty, sickly appearance of 

 the foliage. 



There is another worm that damages my plants to a great extent, but 

 it is not confined to the strawberry. It eats potatoes, carrots, or any roots, 

 and is very fond of celery. When it works on strawberries the foliage 

 is apt to lose its dark glossy green look, and become almost variegated, 

 yellow and green.. The leaves do not attain their full size, and have a 

 warped appearance, like a thin piece of steel made red hot and thrown 

 into water. These worms are about three-fourths of an inch in length, 

 not thicker than a pin, brown color, with many legs, and almost as hard 

 as wire. Early in the spring I find many without legs, almost white, 

 and less lively than the ones I describe. 



Many of my plants are perforated by a little bug or beetle about one- 

 fourth of an inch long, in shape resembling a striped cucumber bug, and 

 of a dull yellowish color. I saw plenty of them two months ago, making 

 holes iu the tenderest leaves, and now 1 see many of their holes. Is it the 

 crown -borer? 



I would like to know where the eggs of these larvae are laid. 1 have 

 found that young plants taken up in July and washed clean and planted 

 in a new bed arc sometimes badly injured the same fall, but cannot tell 

 whether the eggs were attached to them or not.— pi. CRAWFORD, Cuy- 

 ahoga Falls, Ohio. October !), 1883. 



[The larvae were not those of the Strawberry Crown-borer (Analcis 

 JragaricB), but belonged to a little beetle known as Paria aterrima^ the 

 same species mentioned by Professor Co >k iu his address before the 

 Ingham Count j Horticultural Society, and described in the American 

 Entomologist for October, 1880. The other worm mentioned and which 

 was not confined to strawberries, was the common Zulus multistriatus, 

 one of t lie commonest of the " thousand legged worms." 



