Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1898 . re that a cut-worm is working there, and should^use a spud or ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. pointed stick to unearth the spoiler. To foil these pests the young plants should beearthed up as soon and as far as possible, for the creatures crawly over the surface, atnight, and cannot ascend a mound of crumbling earth. Young onions are damaged both by the cut-worms and by the maggots of the onion-fly, Phorbia ceparum Meigen (Fig. 14). The former work singly ; the latter, in should be carefully dug out and destroyed. Dry soot s
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1898 . re that a cut-worm is working there, and should^use a spud or ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. pointed stick to unearth the spoiler. To foil these pests the young plants should beearthed up as soon and as far as possible, for the creatures crawly over the surface, atnight, and cannot ascend a mound of crumbling earth. Young onions are damaged both by the cut-worms and by the maggots of the onion-fly, Phorbia ceparum Meigen (Fig. 14). The former work singly ; the latter, in should be carefully dug out and destroyed. Dry soot scattered over the onion-bedis believed to be serviceable in keeping away the fly. The white-grubs, or larvae of the May-beetle, Lachnosterna fusca, Frohl. (Fig 15)are well-known pests. In the fields the plough unearths them ; and the poultry, follow-ing in its wake, hold high carnival, and become fat and well-liking. In a thoroughly-worked garden the grubs find but little harborage. The hidden pests above mentioned can be dealt with moie easily than some
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