Insects injurious to fruits . ughened with shallow, indented points, and upon eachthere are two or three slightly elevated lines running length-wise. Its legs are tawny yellowish, and the breast is coveredwith pale-yellowish hairs; the under surface is paler than theupper. During the day the beetles remain in repose, but areactive at night, when they congregate upon cherry, plum, andother trees, devouring the leaves,—occasionally, when verynumerous, entirely stripping the trees of foliage. Their ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 213 strong jaws are well adapted for cutting their food, and theirnotched or
Insects injurious to fruits . ughened with shallow, indented points, and upon eachthere are two or three slightly elevated lines running length-wise. Its legs are tawny yellowish, and the breast is coveredwith pale-yellowish hairs; the under surface is paler than theupper. During the day the beetles remain in repose, but areactive at night, when they congregate upon cherry, plum, andother trees, devouring the leaves,—occasionally, when verynumerous, entirely stripping the trees of foliage. Their ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 213 strong jaws are well adapted for cutting their food, and theirnotched or double claws support them securely on the female is said to deposit her eggs between the roots ofgrass, enclosed in a ball of earth; they are white, translucent,and spherical, and about one-twelfth of an inch in hatched, the small white grubs begin at once to feedupon the rootlets of plants ; they are several years in reachingmaturity, and hence larvae of different sizes are usually found Fia. 219,. in the ground at the same time. When full grown, they arealmost as thick as a mans little finger ; they are soft and white,have a horny head of a brownish color, and six legs; thehinder part of the body is usually curved under, as shown at2, Fig. 219. This larva is generally known as the whitegrub, and is very injurious to strawberries, devouring theroots and destroying the plants ; it feeds also upon the rootsof grass and other plants, and when very numerous it so in-jures pasture-lands and lawns that large portions of the turfcan be lifted with the hand and rolled over like a pieceof carpet, so completely are the roots devoured. When coldweather approaches, the grub buries itself in the ground deep 214 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THK CHERRY. eiioiu-h to be beyond the reach of frost, and there remainsuntil the following spring. Fig. 220. FiQ. 221.
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