. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE CHERRY. ATTACKING THE TEUNK, No. 104.—The Divaricated Buprestis. Dicej'ca divaricata (Say). This is a beetle belonging to the family Buprestidse, most of the members of which are readily distinguished by their coppery or bronzed appearance. This species (see Fig. 207) is from seven to nine tenths of an inch in length, copper-colored, and sometimes brassy, and thickly covered with little indentations. The thorax is furrowed in the middle, and the wing-covers are marked with n
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE CHERRY. ATTACKING THE TEUNK, No. 104.—The Divaricated Buprestis. Dicej'ca divaricata (Say). This is a beetle belonging to the family Buprestidse, most of the members of which are readily distinguished by their coppery or bronzed appearance. This species (see Fig. 207) is from seven to nine tenths of an inch in length, copper-colored, and sometimes brassy, and thickly covered with little indentations. The thorax is furrowed in the middle, and the wing-covers are marked with numerous irregular impressed lines and small, elevated, blackish spots. The wing- cases taper much behind, and their long and narrow tips are blunt-pointed, and spread apart a little, the latter peculiarity having given to the insect its specific name, divarioata. The beetles may be found sunning them- selves upon the limbs of cherry and peach trees during June, July, and August; they are active creatures, running briskly up and down the trunks of the trees in the sunshine. The female deposits her eggs on the cultivated and wild cherry-trees, and also on the peach, and, when hatched, the young larva bores through the bark and lives in and de- stroys the sap-w^ood underneath. It is a flattened larva, with its anterior segments very much enlarged, and closely re- sembles that of the flat-headed apple-tree borer, No. 3, Fig. 4, but is larger. This insect is seldom very troublesome; should it require attention, the remedies recommended for No. 3 will be equally applicable to this species. 201. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, William, 1836-1914. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co
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