Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . * Vine-dresser, -t^chrysalis in its cocoon; and the moth. (To face page 213.) INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 213 eight to ten inches from its birth-place. It is notoriousthat this borer will kill both old and young living trees. REMEDIES.—In late summer arid autumn the bark should be care-fully examined for the gashes made by the beetle in laying its eggs,and the small grubs cut out of the bark or sap-wood. Young treesshould also be scraped and soaped, and the trunk at base be sur-rounded by
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . * Vine-dresser, -t^chrysalis in its cocoon; and the moth. (To face page 213.) INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 213 eight to ten inches from its birth-place. It is notoriousthat this borer will kill both old and young living trees. REMEDIES.—In late summer arid autumn the bark should be care-fully examined for the gashes made by the beetle in laying its eggs,and the small grubs cut out of the bark or sap-wood. Young treesshould also be scraped and soaped, and the trunk at base be sur-rounded by tarred paper to prevent the female beetle laying hereggs. The Coddling-moth (Carpocapsa pomoneUa Linn.).—Be-sides the canker-worm and tent-caterpillar, which are locallydestructive, the universal pest of the apple-orchard through-out the United States, from Maine to California, is this in-sect. In the Northern States the moth flies in May, layingits eggs in the calyx after the blossoms fall, and in a few
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