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All this tribe of beetles are nocturnal, burying themselves in the ground 
during the day, and flying among trees at night. 
Apple Curculio , Provisioning Wasps , and other Insects. (Prairie Parmer. 
July 5, 1873, v. 44. p. 209.) 
Apple Curculio.—This insect ( Anthonomus quadrigibbus) is most abundant 
in the southern part of the State. Its natural food is wild crab apple 
and hawthorn fruit. Quotes statements by Walsh and Riley on this species. 
Provisioning Wasps.—Small black Crabronida* received from Iowa. 
Pound in holes in half-dead apple-tree, and at the bottom of the holes a 
mass of insect remains, mostly aphides, intended as food for its young. 
New York Weevil from Kansas.—Although reported every year as dam¬ 
aging young fruit trees, especially apple, by eating out buds and girdling 
twigs, no complaints appear later in the season, and the damage is prob¬ 
ably outgrown by that time. Thinks they might easily be knocked into 
a pan and destroyed. 
Corn Leaf Weevils. — Potato Beetles of Nebraska. (Prairie Farmer, July 19, 
1873, v. 44, p. 227.) 
Corn Leaf Weevils.—Specimens of Epiccerus imbricatus sent from Iowa, 
said to be found in vast numbers eating leaves of growing corn. They 
are rather indiscriminate feeders, having been found on apple and other 
fruit trees. Have not heard of them east of the Mississippi River. 
Larvae on apple bark are of some lady-bug. These feed upon plant lice 
and other small insects or their eggs. 
•Nebraska Potato Beetles.—These are Lyttu maculata, which has never 
been seen east of the Mississippi. Compared with L. cinerea [Macrobasis 
unicolor] and L. vittata. Each of these has been full as destructive to the 
potato crop as the Colorado potato beetle in particular localities and sea¬ 
sons, but rarely continues through a succession of years. The most obvious 
remedy is to beat them oft' into a vessel partly filled with water and a 
little kerosene. As they run rapidly but do not readily fly, they may be I 
driven out by beating the vines. If a windrow of straw be placed in their 
path they will become entangled in it and may be destroyed by burning. 
Paris green, either in powder or solution, would probably be an effective 
remedy. We have yet a great deal to learn in regard to the practical uses 
of Paris green, what insects it will kill and what it will not, and to what 
plants it can be safely applied. 
Destructive Vine Caterpillars. (Prairie Farmer, Aug. 2, 1873, v. 44, p. 245.) 
An Iowa correspondent gives an account of a remarkable destruction of 
grape vines by caterpillars. lie has two vineyards, one of 800 vines, five 
years old, the other younger and of 300 vines. Between July and 
September about one quarter of the larger vineyard was defoliated. 
The younger vineyard suffered much more, a second brood of the caterpil¬ 
lars destroying all the foliage which the first brood left, and so enfeebling 
the vines that most of them were killed by the severity of the succeeding 
winter. Next year the worms were first seen June 21, from which time 
they increased rapidly and destroyed leaves and young shoots. His neigh- I 
bors with small vineyards, kept them free by hand picking. His descrip¬ 
tion corresponds to the larva? of Alypia octomaculata, Eudryas grata , and 
Eudryas unio , which are described by comparison. They enter the ground 
to pupate. Alypia is generally two-brooded, and Eudryas one-brooded. 
Remedies suggested: Shake or brush the worms from the vines and 
destroy them; syringe the vines with a weak solution of Paris green; dust 
the vines with ashes or air-slaked lime; plow and rake the ground about 
the vines late in the season, with the view of gathering and destroying 
the chrysalids. 
Neb. Grasshoppers.—Twig Primers.—Chinch Bugs. 
1G. 1873, v. 44, p. 257.) 
Bruchypeplus magnus, leceived from Nebraska. 
(Prairie Farmer, Aug. 
Literature, etc., noted. 
