296 REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
by not allowing any small shoots to grow on cutting beds during 
the cutting season. Where new beds are being put out yearly, 
pulling and allowing the old stalks to dry and burning them will 
aid in keeping the pest.under control. The stalks can be pulled 
and ‘burned any time after they are dead, but when possible it 
should be done late in the fall. Where left until spring the 
stalks rot to such an extent that the bark slips off, in pulling, and 
the puparia are left in the ground. 
CONCLUSIONS. 
Growers of asparagus are not generally aware of the work aud 
injury of this pest, as it usually works in the asparagus stem 
below the surface of the ground. 
Its work was first noticed on asparagus in the fall of 1896. 
It is not known where or how the eggs are deposited. 
There are at least two distinct broods of this pest on Long 
Island. 
It is suggested that this pest be called “ asparagus miner.” 
The injury, such as it is, is done by the maggot. 
It is still a question whether this pest does enough injury to 
cutting beds to warrant growers going to any extra expense to 
get rid of it, but this does not necessarily prove that it may 
not become a troublesome pest, as it is already known to injure 
seedling beds. 
At present the only means that can be given to control it is 
pulling of the old asparagus stalks as soon as they are killed by 
frost, and burning them, 
