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RASPBERRY. 
Mr. Wood mentions:—“I have noticed this insect in the Rasp¬ 
berries for some years, hut never so numerous as they are this season. 
I have tried several ways to exterminate them, but to no purpose, and 
the only effectual means I can adopt to remove them is to employ 
women and boys to pick them off and kill them ; this is a very 
expensive process. 
“ This season they have appeared rather earlier than usual, 
piercing the bloom before it has expanded (this shown by specimen 
sent). They generally enter the bloom after it has expanded, and then 
eat completely through it. 
“ This insect is a fearful pest; the fruit-growers in this neighbour¬ 
hood complain most fearfully of it.” 
The Byturus is a small Beetle, somewhat less than a quarter of an 
inch long, generally of a yellowish brown or reddish colour, and 
covered with a grey or yellowish down. The grub is of a yellowish 
colour, browner along the back, and with a light brown head. This 
grub is to be found in June and July in Raspberries and in Black¬ 
berries, on which it also feeds. When full-fed it leaves the ripe 
berries and shelters itself in cracks in stems, or some similar place, 
where it changes in a kind of cocoon to a chrysalis, from which the 
Raspberry Beetle comes out in the following spring, and the females 
presently lay their eggs in the quite young Raspberries.* 
The only means of preventing ravage that has been advised 
appears to be shaking down the Beetles early in the morning (or on 
dull days when they would not be disposed to fly) into anything con¬ 
venient, and destroying them. Probably shaking on to tarred boards, 
in the way which has been found very successful in getting rid of the 
Raspberry Weevil by growers in Cornwall, would answer well. But 
further, as the chrysalis winters in shelters amongst old stocks, it 
could not fail to be useful to clear out all remains of previous 
year’s canes, and also, where there has been bad attack, for some 
person interested in the matter to see whether he could not find the little 
chrysalis-cases in the rifts of the cut-down stems, and, if so, adopt 
measures to get rid of them by thick soft-soap dressings poured in, or 
such other measures as might be preferred. 
Raspberry-bud Caterpillar. Lampronia rubiella , Bjerk. 
The caterpillar of the above very small Moth, unless well looked 
after, lias been found at times to do great harm to the Raspberry crop 
by feeding within the stem-buds or the tips of the growing shoots. I 
am indebted to Mr. W. Jenner Weir for the following description of 
* ‘Prak. Insecten kunde,’ by E. L. Taschenberg, Part II., p. 16. 
