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THE IMPORTED CURRANT BORER. (,SV,s/V/ ti pul i form i s, Linn.j 
Piths of currant stems burrowed out by a yellowish 
white larva about half an inch long. Before maturing the 
larva eats a hole to the outside. Bored stems sometimes 
wilting and dying and sometimes breaking down as the 
result of the injury. 
Remedy — Cut out the infested stems and burn them 
before the first of June each year. 
THE NATIVE CURRANT SAW-FLY. [rristiphovu gnmulariae 
Walsh.) 
A green larva, about half of an inch long when fully 
grown, feeding upon the leaves of currant and gooseberry 
bushes. Appearing late in June and again about the last of 
August. The adult insect is a black four-winged fly about 
the size of a house-fly. The eggs are deposited, one in a 
place, under the epidermis of the leaves. 
Remedies. — The best remedy for this pest is white helle- 
bore dusted lightly over the foliage in the evening. If this 
is carefully done, nearly every larva can be found dead 
under the bushes the next morning. Paris green or London 
purple may be used either dry or in water as for other leaf- 
eating insects. The latter poisons should not be used before 
the currants are picked. 
THE WESTERN CURRANT AND GOOSEBERRY SPAN- 
WORMS. flliu niuonoma , sp.) 
Light yellow larvcC, about one inch long when mature, 
and looping their bodies when walking. Sometimes com- 
pletely stripping the foliage from the bushes. 
Remedies. — Dust or spray Paris green or London pur- 
ple as for other leaf-eating insects, or dust freely with 
Buhach (Pyrethrum). A thorough spraying with kerosene 
emulsion would probably be equally effectual. 
Other insects mentioned in this paper that attack cur- 
rants ' and gooseberries are: Red Spider, Tent Caterpillar, 
PTuit-tree Leaf-roller, (jrape I.eaf-hopper and Grasshoppers. 
STR A WBE R R Y LEAF-ROLLER. {l*ho.vopl n'is fruf^ariue, W R.) 
Small yellowish-brown to greenish larvae, attaining nearly 
' one-half inch in length when fully grown, and having the 
