. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. hiseds, Injurious to Ihe Strawherri/. 457 IliirjidlIIS riijiritrnis.âISlack, with ivil anteiiiiii' ami lo;_;'s ; Icnntli abcrat A incli; tlio winn' cases lia\'e Taint stria' n]ii)ii lliem, ami aro CDNcreil witli fine gdlden-j^ixjy pubescenci'; tlie win;^s aiv fully developed. S/i'iri/iiis iiiiiiJill//.â <.âlUack, the le'_;'s with juore or less dislinet reildish liases; length rather more than ^ inch to nearly y inch. Wing eases hnely striated, Imt there ar
. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. hiseds, Injurious to Ihe Strawherri/. 457 IliirjidlIIS riijiritrnis.âISlack, with ivil anteiiiiii' ami lo;_;'s ; Icnntli abcrat A incli; tlio winn' cases lia\'e Taint stria' n]ii)ii lliem, ami aro CDNcreil witli fine gdlden-j^ixjy pubescenci'; tlie win;^s aiv fully developed. S/i'iri/iiis iiiiiiJill//.â <.âlUack, the le'_;'s with juore or less dislinet reildish liases; length rather more than ^ inch to nearly y inch. Wing eases hnely striated, Imt there are no wings. The is narrowed heldnd, lieing much narrowei' tliau the elytra. I' riiJijai'ix.âBlaclad ^\'ith n, nieilian suture. Length nearlj' r! inch. Ciiliitliiis rislrlnidrs.âBlack antenna' and rusty-red legs. Length \ inch to nearly i incli. Wings absent or rudimentary. The above-mentioned characters will easih/ enable the ol:iser\-er to Separate these four kinds, which may occur in the strawb(.'rry Lii'K-HisTiiitv Axn Habits. The beetles all have very similar habits. They are nocturnal and crawl aliout on the ground with great rapidity; in fact, we may say that they run. The red-legged Harpalus also flies. It appears that this species migrates in large nuiubers, for Ormerod (1) records them as appearing in a swarm at Bone Hill, >St. Albans, and as falling liy scores from the walls of a house at Sandridge, having apparently come in contact with them during their flight. I.)m'ing the daytime the beetles hide under clods of eartli, in cracks in the soil, and e^'en actually in the ground, where they form i-uns operdng to the surface by a round hole much like an earthworm's opening. Warbnrton says : " In the infested beds it was found that the earth, together with the straw and litter with A\-liicli it was strewn, was perforated in all direetiims liy the 'runs' of the beetles, which were present in vast ; The straw betw
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