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The remaining invasions have either been recorded in my first arti- 
cle, or have been reported by various correspondents since that paper 
was published. Some of these correspondents write that the insect 
and its work have been noticed in Virginia for six or seven years in the 
past, and in Maryland for upwards of ten years. Mr. James Fletcher 
writes that he has an occasional reference to it every year. 
remedies. 
Although a difficult insect to contend with, it would not be impossible 
to keep it in check in some districts, if all the strawberry growers of a 
neighborhood could be induced to combine in the work of clearing 
away wild plants and destroying the insects in their fields. In other 
places, however, where wild blackberry, strawberry, and Potentilla, in 
which the insect normally breeds, grow so abundantly, as in some 
localities about Washington, it would seem next to useless to attempt 
to control it. 
Burning Brush-wood in Spring. — The practice of 44 burning over" the 
underbrush and weeds in the spring so universally in vogue in parts 
of Maryland and Virginia is undoubtedly productive of good results 
in protecting the cultivated strawberry from the weevil and other insect 
enemies. In past years the strawberry weevil has always been abund- 
ant on the wild blackberry and strawberry that grow in the greatest 
profusion along the shores of the Potomac near Washington, but the 
past two seasons this insect was comparatively scarce, and this falling 
off can only be attributed to the unusually close burning over of the 
weeds and shrubbery of the vicinity. The blackberry bushes were very 
generally killed, and it is quite likely that the hibernating beetles were 
destroyed by the heat. 
Trap Crops. — Excellent proof that the beetle may be successfully 
trapped by planting early -flowering varieties with other berries was 
afforded this year. In a field of " Sharpless n a few " Charles Downing " 
were growing, and although the latter bloomed only a day or two in 
advance of the former the greater abundance of the weevils on the 
"Downings " was at once apparent. By laying out our beds with the 
earliest blooming staminates on the sides which experience has shown 
to be the most likely to be first attacked, e. toward wooded land, the 
beetles can be massed where they can be more profitably reached with 
insecticides. 
By transplanting a few trees of red-bud to the vicinity of the straw- 
berry fields, placing them between the beds and the nearest woodland, 
the hibernated brood of beetles could be reduced to a minimum. This 
tree, which blooms several days before the earliest strawberries, attracts 
the first arrivals. As soon as the buds appear the tree should be 
jarred and shaken daily, and the beetles, together with the buds in 
which they have laid their eggs, gathered on sheets saturated with 
kerosene, which will destroy them. The trees may also be profitably 
