. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . Harpalus ruficornis (left hand), and Pterostichus vulgaris (right hand),magnified, and lines showing natural length. Strawberry fruit gnawed by All Strawberry growers on a large scale will probably be only toowell acquainted by report, even if they have not suffered under itthemselves, with the very great damage now too often caused yearlyby the large black or pitchy black beetles figured above (magnified) toStrawberry fruit just at the ripening or ri
. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . Harpalus ruficornis (left hand), and Pterostichus vulgaris (right hand),magnified, and lines showing natural length. Strawberry fruit gnawed by All Strawberry growers on a large scale will probably be only toowell acquainted by report, even if they have not suffered under itthemselves, with the very great damage now too often caused yearlyby the large black or pitchy black beetles figured above (magnified) toStrawberry fruit just at the ripening or ripened stages. The attack was first recorded as seriously destructive in 1894;since then it has greatly extended in area, and become (in the districtsaffected) a cause of great loss to Strawberry growers, and of annoy-ance, though on a less important scale, to private owners, whose plotswere robbed by the beetles instead of affording fruit for householdpurposes. The history of the attacks has been successively given in myAnnual Reports for 1894, 1895, and 1897, with descriptions of thedifferent species of Ground Beetles which
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