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bey live largely on decaying vegetable matters, however and 
le of the species, at least, clearly prefer these to the fresh tissues 
slants. The eggs of the lulidse may often be found in +he spring 
masses of from sixty to seventy, in holes excavated in the ground' 
i young are quite different in appearance from the adults, having 
eight rings and but few legs. Tlieir development is rapid, and 
f probably attain their full maturity before midsummer. Many 
;he adults live over winter, and may be found in early spring in 
usual places selected by insects for their hibernation. The 
dm are chiefly nocturnal animals, remaining concealed by day 
!i ; wandering freely about at night. The only mode of destroying 
m which has hitherto proved useful, is that of entrapping them 
slices of potato turnip apple, or masses of other attractive food 
(ttered through the held, and covered with pieces of board, under 
eh the myriapods will collect during the night in considerable 
abers. it these lures are then visited late in the evening and 
f early in the morning, before the worms have scattered to their 
ng pieces, they may often be captured by scores and hundreds 
killed in hot water or kerosene. 
r. Sturtevant trapped them successfully in a garden where they 
e injuring Sweet Williams, by exposing small lumps of mingled 
r and molasses, taking as many as thirty-live worms at a time, 
er a lump the size of a silver dollar; but attempts to poison 
n with Paris green were total failures, this substance having 
apparent injurious effect on them. 
D. Injuring the Crown or the Main Root. 
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1. Boring out the interior. 
A small, reddish caterpillar, with sixteen legs. 
The Strawberry Crown Miner. 
Anarsia lineatella , Zeller. 
Order Lepidoptera. Family Tineecue. 
[Plate VI, Figs. 5 and 6.1 
Shis species having been already treated in my preceding report, 
reader is referred to that publication, pages 76-82. 
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