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INSECTS INJURIOUS TO TIIE STRAWBERRY 
INTRODUCTORY. 
The strawberry is now, perhaps, the most popular fruit in th 
Uate certainly eaten by more people, and piobal y » c 
mantities than any other perishable fruit. The greater part of thi 
mnortance it has acquired within a very few years, largely as 
3eauence of devices for the rapid transportation of such fruit 
ind their preservation in transit m good condition for delivery a 
markets many hundreds of miles from the place of production. Thi 
has had the result not only to multiply many times the area oj( 
which the individual fruit grower could distribute. his 
but greatly to extend the season during which this fiuit could 
had at reasonable prices in the principal markets of the State. 
v ,,. ti.a* shipments of strawberries are regularly made from tl 
southern lea cffio New York City and from Cental Mississrpj 
Tn rhicaffo the fruit being cultivated as a specialty by a a P 
increasinf number? on farms from fifty to one hundred and fit 
acres the insect enemies of this crop have acquired an econom 
importance very different from that which they had when the coi 
mercial demand for strawberries was supplied cliiefly 
nlus of the family garden. As might be expected, also, the g 
Increase in the area devoted to this fruit, and the growing disp 
sition to cultivate it in large tracts instead of misolatedPatel* 
have ■ noticeably stimulated the multiplication ot such insects 
found their natural food in the wild strawberry of tins' region, a 
seem also to have attracted the attention and invited the attack 
other species which originally depended for food upon other plan 
Forty species of insects are now known to attack the strawbal 
with more or less injurious effect, besides one 11 m f?' pe ? even in J 
mite not properly to be classed as insects. All the seven in. 
orders are represented by them, except the Neuroptera and to 
latter very few insects injurious to man belong. 1 our ot the 
are Hymenoptera (a mason bee, an ant and two saw-flies); thirteen 
larva; "of Lepidoptera, all belonging to four families of moths, 
is a dipterous insect (a gah-fly), and fourteen are Coleoptera.rei 
senting the five families, Scarabseid®, Elatend®, Chrysomeh 
Curculionidae and Otiorhynchid*. The two Orthopteia aie 
grasshoppers, and the eight Hemiptera include a scale insect, t 
plant lice, and four Heteroptera. 
