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CORN AND GRASS. 
Daddy Long-legs. Tipula oleracea, Linn.* 
Spotted Crane Fly. T. maculosa, Linn. 
1, Larva ; 2, pupa-case ; 3, fly ; 4, eggs. 
On the 3rd of April Mr. John Hill forwarded specimens of Daddy 
Long-legs grubs of various ages from a field of Wheat on light sandy 
soil. This was sown on the 4tli of February, after one year’s Clover 
ley, and had been well limed before ploughing. The grubs were 
reported to be in thousands, and the ground to be perfectly alive with 
them. Information was also sent on the 17th of April, from the 
neighbourhood of Totnes, Devon, of a Barley field, sown about the 
beginning of March, being destroyed by the Daddy Long-legs grub. 
In this case the land was rather heavy, and on ley which had been 
out two or three years. The grubs were to be found in hundreds 
all over the field and began to eat from the centre. At the time 
of writing they had hardly left a blade, except a narrow strip less 
than a land yard wide, round about two-thirds of the field, which they 
evidently intended to finish. 
On the 18th of April Mr. Fletcher, of Felhampton Court, Church- 
Stretton, wrote regarding great injury being caused to a bed of 
Strawberries planted in the previous autumn (on land from which a 
crop of early Potatoes had been taken) by means of a grub which 
turned out to be one of the smaller kinds of Daddy Long-legs, 
* The Leather-jacket Grub being mainly injurious to Corn and Grass crops, the 
reports of injury from it are placed under the above heading, to which the reader is 
referred from the headings of special crops attacked. 
