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made. Favorable or unfavorable weather will explain, at least in part, 
why some buds are cut off, while others remain attached. 
The entire time consumed varies greatly, but fifteen or even ten min- 
utes, is ample for oviposition. The process of forming a hole consists 
simply in perforating the corolla, although the calyx is also sometimes 
pierced through, the time varying from two to five or more minutes. 
In inserting the egg less than a minute is ordinarily consumed, and the 
process of severing the bud varies in time according to how completely 
the insect does its work. 
INJURIOUS APPEARANCES. 
The strawberry weevil appears to be one of the many forms, like the 
corn bill-bugs, for example, that are only exceptionally injurious, which 
appear in great abundance for one or more seasons in certain districts, 
and after causing a vast amount of trouble relapse into obscurity, to 
reappear in a new locality after a lapse of years. A review of economic 
literature, however, together with reports from correspondents, shows 
that this insect has done more or less damage in the past, year after 
year, since its first recorded appearance in 1871. It is more than prob- 
able that the strawberry and blackberry crops, at least of this vicinity, 
are annually levied upon by this little creature to the extent of from 5 
to 20 per cent, a loss that would seldom be noticed. 
Now that our local growers are becoming familiar with the appear- 
ance of the insect and its work, we should be better able to observe its 
progress, as well as to cope with it in years of abundance. 
The following table shows that the insect has been more or less inju- 
rious for the past twelve years : 
1871.— Maryland. 1 1891.— Maryland. 
1873. — Missouri. 2 Virginia. 
1883. — Michigan (northern). 3 
1884. — Staten Island, N. Y* 
1885. — Staten Island, N. Y. 2 
Prov. Ontario, Canada. 4 
Pennsylvania (Krieg). 5 
1886. — Prov. Ontario, Canada. 6 
1887. — Pennsylvania. 5 
Prov. Quebec, Canada. "a 
1888. — Michigan (Southern). 3 a 
Prov. Quebec, Canada. 6 
1889. — Maryland. 
Prov. Quebec, Canada. 6 
1890. — Maryland. 
Virginia. 
Prov. Quebec, Canada. 6 
New Hampshire (Dimmock). ri a 
1892. — Maryland. 
Virginia. 
Delaware. 
1893. — Maryland. 
Virginia. 
Delaware (Beckwith). 
Southern New Jersey (Smith). & b 
1894. — Maryland. 
Virginia. 
Delaware. 7 
Southern New Jersey. 7 
Pennsvlvania. 
1 Glover. Monthly Rept. Dept. Agr., 1871, p. 479. 
2 Riley. Rept. Commr. Agr. for 1885, p. 276. 
3 Cook. Rept. Sec'y Hort. Soc. Mich., for 1883, p. 154; 3a Rept. Agl. Exp. St., Mich/, 
for 1888, p. 165. 
4 Saunders. Can. Ent., xvn, p. 239. 
5 Ixsect Life, i, p. 85; 5a do., iv, p. 76; 5b do., vi, p. 191. 
6 Fletcher. Exptl. Farms (Canada), Rept. for 1890, p. 174; 6a do., for 1887, p. 37. 
7 Present in strawberry fields, but no serious injury reported. 
