Insects injurious to fruits . When it leaves the fruit or other substance it has occupied, itdescends a little below the surface of the earth, and in a fewdays changes to a brown chrysalis, from which the moth () emerges from about the end of August to the middle ofSeptember. In case this insect should so multiply as to require aremedy, hand-picking is the only one suggested. SUPPLEMENTAET LIST OF INJURIOUS INSECTS WHICHAEPEOT THE STEAWBERRT. ATTACKING THE ROOTS. The larva of the goldsmith beetle, No. 77, and also thatof the May beetle, No. 113, attack the roots of the straw-berry. The
Insects injurious to fruits . When it leaves the fruit or other substance it has occupied, itdescends a little below the surface of the earth, and in a fewdays changes to a brown chrysalis, from which the moth () emerges from about the end of August to the middle ofSeptember. In case this insect should so multiply as to require aremedy, hand-picking is the only one suggested. SUPPLEMENTAET LIST OF INJURIOUS INSECTS WHICHAEPEOT THE STEAWBERRT. ATTACKING THE ROOTS. The larva of the goldsmith beetle, No. 77, and also thatof the May beetle, No. 113, attack the roots of the straw-berry. The latter, which is commonly known as the whitegrub, is frequently very destructive. SUPPLEMENTARY LIST. 335 ATTACKING THE LEAVES. Tlic oblique-banded leaf-roller, No. 35 ; the climbing cut-worms, No. 45; the tarnished plant-bug, No. 71; the hornedspan-worm. No. 86; the grape-vine Colaspis, No. 153; andthe currant Angerona, No. 210. ATTACKING THE FRUIT. Tlie flea-like negro-bug, No. 185, is not uncommon on thefruit of tl>e st
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