. The American fruit culturist. Pigs. 263, 264. The Grape-vine Flea-beetle. Fig. 263.—Beetle. Fig. 264.— Fig. 265.—Beetles and larv« at work onleaves, natural size. Figs. 263 and 264 much enlarged. (U. S. Div. of Ento-mology.) for another brood of grubs until the next spring. They hiber-nate in any sheltered place around the vines. This serious pest of the grape-growers can be easily con-trolled by the thorough use of a poison spray on the burstingbuds in early spring; use Paris green at the rate of one poundin fifty to seventy-five gallons of water, to which two poundsof freshly slaked
. The American fruit culturist. Pigs. 263, 264. The Grape-vine Flea-beetle. Fig. 263.—Beetle. Fig. 264.— Fig. 265.—Beetles and larv« at work onleaves, natural size. Figs. 263 and 264 much enlarged. (U. S. Div. of Ento-mology.) for another brood of grubs until the next spring. They hiber-nate in any sheltered place around the vines. This serious pest of the grape-growers can be easily con-trolled by the thorough use of a poison spray on the burstingbuds in early spring; use Paris green at the rate of one poundin fifty to seventy-five gallons of water, to which two poundsof freshly slaked lime are added, and be sure not to let thebeetles get the start of you in the spring. Or the beetles maybe jarred from the buds into pans of kerosene, or on to sheets•soaked in kerosene; the beetles quickly drop when the vine DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS. [99 is jarred. Follow up this treatment in the early part of Juneby spraying the infested portioas of the vines with Paris green(one pound to one hundred and fifty gallons of
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