Our native grapeGrapes and their cultureAlso descriptive list of old and new varieties . Beetle—Haltica Chalybea. The Grapevine Flea-beetle is apparently on the increase in Western New York, and is becoming a pest of the Grape grow-er. Its multiplication should not bepermitted, but should be persistentlyfought by breaking up or removingin the autumn its usual place of hiber-nation, as loose bark and the refusematerial of the vineyard, and by pre-venting the beetle eating out theheart of the buds in the early they first make their attack onthe buds, to which they are so destruc-tive
Our native grapeGrapes and their cultureAlso descriptive list of old and new varieties . Beetle—Haltica Chalybea. The Grapevine Flea-beetle is apparently on the increase in Western New York, and is becoming a pest of the Grape grow-er. Its multiplication should not bepermitted, but should be persistentlyfought by breaking up or removingin the autumn its usual place of hiber-nation, as loose bark and the refusematerial of the vineyard, and by pre-venting the beetle eating out theheart of the buds in the early they first make their attack onthe buds, to which they are so destruc-tive, they should be knocked off dailyinto a pan of water and kerosene, orthis form of injury can be preventedby spraying with a mixture of lime-wash made with brine, to which isadded some London purple. In theaccompanying illustration, the lar\-seare represented in their natural size,feeding upon a leaf. A hemipterousinsect has been detected preyingupon the larv^a by sucking its juices. It belongs to the plant bugs, so many of which have aided us in the destruction of our insect GRAPEVINE FI,EA \a, natural size. b. Larva magnified. Cocoon. d. Beetle enlarged. 70 OUR NATIVE GRAPE.
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