. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. STRAWBERRY PESTS 1947 and abdomen have a transverse row of reddish-brown hairs. Seasonal History The strawberry root weevil is single brooded. The adult beetles may remain alive and active for more than a year. There are then for a short period of time two generations of beetles present. This complicates matters somewhat and affords a reasonable
. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. STRAWBERRY PESTS 1947 and abdomen have a transverse row of reddish-brown hairs. Seasonal History The strawberry root weevil is single brooded. The adult beetles may remain alive and active for more than a year. There are then for a short period of time two generations of beetles present. This complicates matters somewhat and affords a reasonable chance for error in checking up the life history. These beetles are busily engaged in feeding on the foliage of the strawberry and other host, ragging and stripping it. The in- sects pass the winter in both the adult and grub stage. The beetles hibernate in all conceivable sorts of places. Many of them become restless in early September and begin seeking a place for hiberna- tion. Very often in this search they en- ter dwellings and prove a source of no little worry to the housewife by crawl- ing over and under everything and drop- ping from the walls and ceiling into dishes and vessels. Many of them remain in the field, hibernating in the soil up close about the crown of their host, or crowded down into the sheaths about the central whorl of the crown. They have been found in bundles of shingles, in bundles of bedding and in crates of nursery stock and other trans- portable material. This may account in a large measure for their spread to new localities. The grubs pass the winter in the soil about the roots of their hosts. A portion of them are mature in late fall, and even form in the soil what will constitute the pupa cell. The major- ity of the grubs pass the winter as near- ly mature larvae, feeding to a limited extent on their host. A very few grubs occur during the winter as only half- grown larvae, and these naturally pro- long the period of pupation and emerg- ence of
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