. Some insects injurious to garden and orchard crops : a series of articles dealing with insects of this class. o have become attached to this insect,the writer proposes that it be known as the garden flea-hopper. 62 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO GARDEN AND ORCHARD CROPS. REMEDIES. The most feasible method of treatment that suggests itself is the useof* kerosene in some of its forms. A spray of kerosene emulsion, asstrong as the plant will bear without injury, would doubtless be effectivein the destruction of the bugs in all stages, or they might be jarredfrom the plants upon which they are feeding ont
. Some insects injurious to garden and orchard crops : a series of articles dealing with insects of this class. o have become attached to this insect,the writer proposes that it be known as the garden flea-hopper. 62 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO GARDEN AND ORCHARD CROPS. REMEDIES. The most feasible method of treatment that suggests itself is the useof* kerosene in some of its forms. A spray of kerosene emulsion, asstrong as the plant will bear without injury, would doubtless be effectivein the destruction of the bugs in all stages, or they might be jarredfrom the plants upon which they are feeding onto sheets saturated withkerosene or into pans of water on which a thin scum of kerosene isfloating. For the mechanical method of treatment it would be preferable to goover the infested plants early in the morning or late in the day beforedusk, when the insects are less active than in the bright sunlight. THE IMBRICATED SNOUT-BEETLE. (Epiccerus imbricatns Say.)RECENT INJURY. Specimens of this snout-beetle were received May 10, 1898, from Font, Garfield, Ark., with the information that they were very. Fig. 14.—JEpiccerus imbricatus: a, female beetle; 6, same from side; c, newly hatched larva; d, samefrom side; e, egg; /, egg mass.—a, &, about three times natural size; /, two times; c, d, e, moreenlarged (original). destructive to strawberry plants, eating the leaves and afterwards theentire stem. They appeared in that vicinity about April 10. Frommaterial received at this time eggs and larvae were obtained, fromwhich certain studies were made and the accompanying illustrationsprepared. There is at least one other record of this beetle being injurious tostrawberry—that published by Messrs. Osborn and Mally (Bui. 32, IowaAgr. Coll. Expt. Sta., p. 395). Although the species, in its adult state,at least, is what is termed a general feeder, these two instances willserve to secure it a permanent place in the list of enemies to this its wide distribution and its
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