DEATH TO 

 ROSE-BUGS 



MANY exasperated rose - lovers, 

 seeing the best blooms of their 

 pet roses destroyed by this 

 boiler-plate bug, have wished death to 

 him and all his family. Wishes have 

 not hurt him, however, and it has here- 

 tofore been necessary to patiently and 

 persistently pick or shake him — if you 

 could catch him! — into kerosene in 

 order to make his death certain. 



Rose-growers know the mean bug — 

 a disgusting, long-legged, grayish-brown 

 quick-flying beetle about three-eighths 

 of an inch in length, who suddenly 

 appears in myriads when roses come 

 into bloom, attacking, to satisfy his 

 voracious appetite, first the white and 

 lighter-colored roses, from which he 

 passes to the yellow, pink and red 

 blooms, and then, without hesitation, 

 to peonies, Japanese iris, rhododendrons 

 and other Jime blooms. He infests also, 

 on occasion, grape-vines, cherry, and 

 other fruit trees, always leaving destruc- 

 tion in his wake. 



This pest is scientifically the Rose 

 Curculio (Rhynchites bicolor Fabr.), 



