. A manual of injurious insects with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit. To which is appended a short introduction to entomology . erry stem (at a few inchesfrom it), would keep any caterpillars from being able to crawlup it. MAGPIE MOTH ; GOOSEBEERY AND CURKANT SAWFLY. 313 When caterpillars are first found to be attacking the bushes(as they do not throw themselves down readily on disturbance),many may be got rid of by a man with scissors in one handand a jug or j^ail (with some mixture in it that the grubs can-not escape out of) in the ot
. A manual of injurious insects with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit. To which is appended a short introduction to entomology . erry stem (at a few inchesfrom it), would keep any caterpillars from being able to crawlup it. MAGPIE MOTH ; GOOSEBEERY AND CURKANT SAWFLY. 313 When caterpillars are first found to be attacking the bushes(as they do not throw themselves down readily on disturbance),many may be got rid of by a man with scissors in one handand a jug or j^ail (with some mixture in it that the grubs can-not escape out of) in the other, snipping off the infested leavesinto the vessel. All the measures of hand-picking, shaking down, anddestroying the caterpillars under the bushes, dusting withvarious applications, dressing under the bushes in winter orearly spring with lime or gas-lime, &c., which are foundserviceable in checking the attack of Gooseberry Sawflycaterpillar, and of which an abstract is given in the followingpaper, would be equally serviceable in lessening damage fromMagpie caterpillars, which are easily kept in check bymoderate care. Gooseberry and Currant Sawfly. Nematus rihcsii, Curtis,. Male Sawfly, catci-pillars and cocoou ; all magnified. After figures in Eeportsof Ent. Soc. of Ontario. Dimensions given below. The attack of Sawfly catcrpillais on Gooseberry leafage isone which appears certain to show itself more or less everyyear; and often, and especially in bush-fruit growing districts,causes great loss to the growers. The chief characteristics ofthe attack are only too easily observable; but for furtherinformation as to habits, all necessary details will be found inthe paper on this Gooseberry Sawfly, published l)y John Curtisin the vol. of tlie * Gardeneis Clii-oniclu for 1841, from whichmost of the following notes of the life-history of this insectare taken. 314 GOOSEBERRY. The female Sawfly appears about April, and lays her eggson or beside the largest veins beneath the Gooseberry
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