. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . aggots have left to it pupate. Where this is carefullydone injury by the pest is greatly reduced. Particular attentionshould be given to the destruction of infested summer pastured in the orchard will do this work admirably, andwhere there are but a few trees on bare or cultivated groundchickens will destroy the larva?. Plowing the orchard deeplyas early as feasible in spring and keeping it well cultivated in earlysummer will bury the puparia so as to greatly lessen injury, whichis always worse in uncultivated sod orchards. As yet no met
. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . aggots have left to it pupate. Where this is carefullydone injury by the pest is greatly reduced. Particular attentionshould be given to the destruction of infested summer pastured in the orchard will do this work admirably, andwhere there are but a few trees on bare or cultivated groundchickens will destroy the larva?. Plowing the orchard deeplyas early as feasible in spring and keeping it well cultivated in earlysummer will bury the puparia so as to greatly lessen injury, whichis always worse in uncultivated sod orchards. As yet no methodof spraying has been used which shows any effect on this pest,as the maggots inside the apple cannot be reached by a spray,but experiments are now being made in New Hampshire whichmay show a method of killing the adidt flies, as has been done witha similar pest in the orchards in South Africa. The Apple Curculio * The apple curculio has been commonly confused with the plumcurculio (p. 576), but is by no means as .common or injurious, and. Fig. 491.—The apple curculio (Anthoitonius quadrigibbus Say): a, b, adultbeetles; c, larva; d, pupa—all enlarged. (After Riley.) is quite distinct in both appearance and habits. The adult beetle is about the same size as the plum curculio, but more reddish- * AjUhononnis quadrigibbus Say. Family Curculionidce. See C. , Bulletin 98, 111. Agr. Exp. Sta., p. 514; F. E. Brooks, Bulletin 126,W. Va. Agr. Exp. Sta., p. 113. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE AND PEAR 635
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