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ATTACKING THE PRUIT. 

 Ifo. 237. — The Cranberry Fruit-worm. 



This is the caterpillar of a small moth related to the leaf- 

 rollers, and is shown in Fig. 387. It is of a yel- 

 lowish-green color, and appears early in August, 

 when it injures the fruit, entering berry after berry, 

 eating the inside of each, and making it turn pre- 

 maturely red. It attains its full growth by the 

 beginning of September, when it buries itself in the 

 ground, where it forms a cocoon covered with grains 

 of sand, scarcely to be distinguished from a small 

 lump of earth, within which it changes to a chrys- 

 alis. Flooding is the only remedy suggested for this insect. 



No. 238. — The Cranberry Weevil. 



Anthonomus suturalis Lee. 



About the middle of July, or just before the blossoms are 

 ready to expand, this weevil appears. It is a small, reddish- 

 brown beetle, with a dark-brown head and a beak half as 

 long as its body, shown in Fig. 388. The thorax is a little 

 darker than the wing-covers, and is sparingly 

 covered with short whitish hairs ; the wing- ^igj- 388. 

 cases are ornamented with rows of indented 

 dots. The beetle is a little over one-eighth of 

 an inch long, including the beak. Having 

 selected a blossom-bud about to expand, it 

 drills a hole through the centre with its snout, in which is 

 deposited a pale-yellow egg. The bud is then cut off' by the 

 beetle at the stem, and drops to the ground, and within it the 

 ^gg hatches to a dull-white grub with a yellow head and black 

 jaw^s (see Fig. 388), which feeds upon the bud, and, passing 

 through its transformations, produces the perfect beetle, which 

 eats its way out, leaving a round hole in the side of the de- 



