. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XIV. No. THE AGRICULT1 RAL NEWS. 155 CASSAVA STEM BORER. S icimens of an insect al _ the stem of cassava plants in St. Vincent were n i ived al the < tffice of the [mperial Department It ure. Cassava growing at the E nl Station was rathei seriouslj attacked and i con intof injury result ed. The insect has been identi peci , which is known - a borer in ornamental crotons in St. Vincent and Grenada, while another species is injury by boring in b n I of orang similar trees. This insect is shown in
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XIV. No. THE AGRICULT1 RAL NEWS. 155 CASSAVA STEM BORER. S icimens of an insect al _ the stem of cassava plants in St. Vincent were n i ived al the < tffice of the [mperial Department It ure. Cassava growing at the E nl Station was rathei seriouslj attacked and i con intof injury result ed. The insect has been identi peci , which is known - a borer in ornamental crotons in St. Vincent and Grenada, while another species is injury by boring in b n I of orang similar trees. This insect is shown in Fig. 7, which serves i i ral h genei J appearance of these insects. (^^. FlH VNGE Bokkr. Flu. H. I'l r \ iii Si w: \ bee. Enlarged. The cassava stem borer is largi i than the scarabee, the being J inch, the pupa | inch, and the full-grown larva about J inch in length. The pupa very much resembles that of the scarabee which is shown in tin' accompanying Fig. The cassava stein borer is so little known that has been no opportunity of testing methods that may In used t"i' iis control. It is suggested, however, that all material for planting shouId bi free From infestation, and, in tail, that no plant material should lie taken from any field known to lie or suspected of being infested by this insect, and all bits of stem in infested fields should be carefully removed from the fields and either burned or deeply buried in order to kill the gri b I beetles in them. Revival of the Beche-de-Mer Industry in the Bahamas.—Recently a shipment oi be'che-de-mer, valued at about 68,000, was made to Chinese ports from the Bahamas, which revives an industry that for a period of forty years promised well. The sea slugs in the waters of the Bahamas appear to be of high quality as compared with those of the East [ndies and Australian coast and the atolls of Polynesia. In the south-western section ol the Pacific the ' ? try is valued at more than £2,500,000 annually, but i,is to be get
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