. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . \) Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, ^Egerid^e. [Living in the stems and roots of raspberry and blackberrybushes; a pale yellow sixteen-legged larva.] Fig. 196. Fig. 196.— Raspberry-root Borer—colors, brown, black, and yellow ; a, themale moth ; b, the female. The perfect insect ( 196) expandsfrom one inch to one inch and threelines, and is of a black color, markedwith gray, as folloAvs : A narrow ringaround the neck, the hind third o
. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . \) Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, ^Egerid^e. [Living in the stems and roots of raspberry and blackberrybushes; a pale yellow sixteen-legged larva.] Fig. 196. Fig. 196.— Raspberry-root Borer—colors, brown, black, and yellow ; a, themale moth ; b, the female. The perfect insect ( 196) expandsfrom one inch to one inch and threelines, and is of a black color, markedwith gray, as folloAvs : A narrow ringaround the neck, the hind third of theabdominal segments; a row of tufts onthe back, and another row along eachside of the abdomen, besides a fewstreaks on the eggs from wbich these borers hatch are deposited upon. rNSECTS INFESTING THE RASPBERRY. 209 the bushes at a distance of from four to six inches from theground. As soon as hatched, the young borer enters the stemto the pith, and then directs its course downward to the roots,which it reaches at the approach of AV^inter. Here it remainsuntil the following Spring, when it directs it course upward,burrowing out a different stem than the one by which it hadentered the roots. After attaining its full growth it })reparesa place of exit, and soon afterward assumes the pupa form. I have only found one specimen of the larva of this speciesand have had specimens of roots sent me from which theborer had matured. Remedy.—Use No. 37 in the latter part of June and earlyin July; or No. 5 or 7. CHAPTER CXXIV. The Raspberry-root Gall-fly. (Rhoditei< radicivin.—Osten Sacken.)Order, Hymenoptera ; Family, Cyxipid.^. [Living in a large swelling on the roots of raspl)erry bushes ;small whitish footless grubs.] If one of these galls were to be cut open, it
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