. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 90 THE AORICOLTURAL NEWS. March 16, fN rCT fITES. THB^ SUU -0/^ B^ BEETLE IN In a recent of tLt in Icultural News (see Vol. X, p. 314) * short tvii'^lipeuif^i ^.n the subject of anew sugar-cane pest in ^i;)iiwtius. 'his pest was the larva of a hardback beetle v. i'uiv 41301 ni-iit its appearance in that island, and had causei) «t ;ii)ie amount of loss by the injuries inflicted on ibe growing cane. Since the time bat this beetle was first reported, it has attracted attention ^xot all pf'ts u
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 90 THE AORICOLTURAL NEWS. March 16, fN rCT fITES. THB^ SUU -0/^ B^ BEETLE IN In a recent of tLt in Icultural News (see Vol. X, p. 314) * short tvii'^lipeuif^i ^.n the subject of anew sugar-cane pest in ^i;)iiwtius. 'his pest was the larva of a hardback beetle v. i'uiv 41301 ni-iit its appearance in that island, and had causei) «t ;ii)ie amount of loss by the injuries inflicted on ibe growing cane. Since the time bat this beetle was first reported, it has attracted attention ^xot all pf'ts ui the sugar-growing world, on account of the vt iv Serious of the damage done by it, and also becaust of the *»• i th; t it is seemingly a new form, certainly new to Mauiiins, and, up to the present time, apparently not "J^vitified in any published account of Jhe insect. The enormous MUtibers in which these insects have occurred are shown i;i [ ? o letters viiich have been received by the Imperial Commisr :? of .V ;i culture from a correspond- ent in Mauritius. In "f the^f Jated December 15, 1911, it was stated that th Uilt b- ns were being captured in large numbers, over .'j'^.000 been taken in a single night; a postscript ai*^ ' on the i .^ of the month gives the record of 1,372,000 bt es taken in one night. The method ado: '1 for tb- capture of the beetles is ingenious. This work ione by East Indians—men, women and children—who st ? u small iiranches of trees into the "round, in fields wher •\e insects are known to abound. The branches, having the ? , k arance of small shrubs, are placed irregularly, at no fixee istance apart; this may vary from 15 to 50 feet. At dusk. •• insects come out of the ground and settle on the branches^ Mom whii h they are collected by the Indians, who are pr' the beetles in one night, while the total number for the months of November and December exceeded 25,000,000. During the latter part of December,
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