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HINTS TO FRUIT-GROWERS.: Paper No. 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

WM. Saunders
Affiliation:
London, Ont.

Extract

The gooseberry saw fly, Nematus Ventricosus. The season of warmth and growth having opened this year early, this never-failing pest has put in its appearance also in advance of previous years; as early as the 23rd of April I found the insect on the wing preparing to deposit its eggs as soon as the foliage was sufficiently expanded. Our last number contained an enlarged figure of the fly. (See fig. 4.) We now give a representation of the larva in its natural position, feeding on the leaves

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1871

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