. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. INSECTS, DISEASES, AND CONTROL 279 attacks many other kinds of trees. The round-headed borer is the more serious enemy of apple trees. They live in the trunk about three years and then change through the pupa stage to the adult beetle. The best remedy is to keep the adults from laying their eggs on the trunks by tying heavy paper or wire gauze about the. Fig. 140.—Peach tree borers may be easily dug from the trunk after the Boil is r
. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. INSECTS, DISEASES, AND CONTROL 279 attacks many other kinds of trees. The round-headed borer is the more serious enemy of apple trees. They live in the trunk about three years and then change through the pupa stage to the adult beetle. The best remedy is to keep the adults from laying their eggs on the trunks by tying heavy paper or wire gauze about the. Fig. 140.—Peach tree borers may be easily dug from the trunk after the Boil is re- moved from the base. Note the two borers just removed. (New Jersey Station.) FiQ. 141.—A method of protect- ing peach trees from the attacks of borers. The paper keeps the adult moth from laying her eggs on the trunk. (New Jersey Station.) trees. The bottom of this protection should be slightly covered by soil and the top securely tied to prevent the beetles from crawling in. These protectors should be renewed before the egg-laying season of early summer. Lime-sulfur wash is a good protection against these beetles and this should be applied at least above these Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davis, Kary Cadmus, 1867-. Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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