. The successful stockman and manual of husbandry . Livestock; Veterinary medicine. FLAT HEADBD BORER. a. Larva; b. Chrysa- lis ; 1-. Portion of body ; d. Perfect insect. Flat Headed Apple Tree Borer. This beetle is of a greenish- black color, with brassy lines above, and shines like burnished copper below. It is about one inch in length, but the worm (larvae) which does all the damage, is much smaller. The grub, which has a very broad, flat head, also attacks the pear, plum, and peach, as well as the apple. As a preventive use the treatment rec- ommeded for the "Woolly I^oase.
. The successful stockman and manual of husbandry . Livestock; Veterinary medicine. FLAT HEADBD BORER. a. Larva; b. Chrysa- lis ; 1-. Portion of body ; d. Perfect insect. Flat Headed Apple Tree Borer. This beetle is of a greenish- black color, with brassy lines above, and shines like burnished copper below. It is about one inch in length, but the worm (larvae) which does all the damage, is much smaller. The grub, which has a very broad, flat head, also attacks the pear, plum, and peach, as well as the apple. As a preventive use the treatment rec- ommeded for the "Woolly I^; As it is often found on the larger limbs, the soft-soap should not be confined to the trunk, but should extend to the larger limbs. Round Headed Apple Tree Borer. The mature insect is nearly one inch long, and has two stripes running lengthwise of its body, separating three of a cinnamon-brown color. The insect flies only at night, hence is seldom seen. It makes its appearance in May, and lays its eggs in June, nearly at the foot of the tree, and the young worms soon bore into the bark. To remove and destroy this pest of the orchards; just before \-eg^ctation starts in the spring level the ground, and pack it firmly around the root of the tree, in a circle of about two feet in diame- Larva. Chrysalis. Beetle. ter, according tO the size ROUND HEADED APPLE TREE BORER. of the tree. Take un- leached ashes and dr-slacked lime in equal parts, well mixed, and applj^ to the circle thus made, covering the ground all over two or three inches in depth. Then take strong soap suds, or, what is better, a solution of half a pound of sal-soda to one gallon of water, mixed with soft-soap, and paint the entire trunk and base of the limbs thoroughly with this mixture. Repeat this operation in the fall of the year, just before freez- ing weather, covering the ground with the mixture of ashes and lime, and washing the trunk and the base of the branches with the solution as above. If the bore
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