Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904 . nued persistent eiiorts will eradicate it. Fiiatoran the carpets should be taken up, thoroughly beaten, and it would beadvisable to spray these with benzine while they are out of doors. Thebare floors should be swept and dusted and washed with hot water. Care-ful attention should be given to the cracks m the floor and it would be weto pour some benzine into the cracks, then, after it has evaporated to filupihese cracks with putty or plaster of Paris. The cracks are the bestbreeding places for the insect, and these should be don
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904 . nued persistent eiiorts will eradicate it. Fiiatoran the carpets should be taken up, thoroughly beaten, and it would beadvisable to spray these with benzine while they are out of doors. Thebare floors should be swept and dusted and washed with hot water. Care-ful attention should be given to the cracks m the floor and it would be weto pour some benzine into the cracks, then, after it has evaporated to filupihese cracks with putty or plaster of Paris. The cracks are the bestbreeding places for the insect, and these should be done away with if pos-sible. Rugs should be used rather than carpet, for experience shows thatthe edge of the carpet is most liable to injury from the attacks of tjus insectIn rooms where the Carpet Beetle has efiected an entrance, it would be wellto leave the edges of the carpet free, so that they may be examined freelyat intervals. If the house-keeper carries out the measures which I haveladiS! she will have little trouble from the operations of the CarpetBeetle,. Fig. G Buffalo Beetle ; a larva (destructive stage); 6 pupa within larva skia ;? c papa ; d beetle—all much magmhed. Powder Post Beetle. This minute beetle belongs to the genus is more or less common throughout the Province, ^nd many mqumeshave been made during the past season as to the name of the }^««°tjjfis converting some of the oldest and most valuable furniture 1^*° Poy!^^-The cluse of the injury is a minute beetle called the Powder Post BeetleIt not only is injur ous to old house furniture, but it is an insect to beL^dedb/woodworkers generally. This minute ^-k p-^^^^ „in the wood, and the eggs are deposited m the spring, ihe grubs, onIat tLrfrom the egg, begin to operate in all f^-^ri^^l°:t ^1:^There they remain until full grown and transform to the PY^f;f j^^^^^in a short time afterwards they emerge as adult beetles It ^^ probableihat there is but one brood annually. These insects prefer very
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