A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them (1891) (14595634100)

Identifier: handbookofdestru02vict (find matches)
Title: A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture French, Charles, 1843- Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insect pests Insects
Publisher: Melbourne, R. S. Brain, Government Printer
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries



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THE STRAWBERRY BEETLE. 1 7.) CHAPTER XL. THE STRAWBERRY BEETLE. (Hhinaria perdiw. PascoeS) Order: Coleoptera. Family: Curculionir/tB. This very serious insect enemy of the strawberrygrower, and, in some cases, to the grower of raspberriesalso, is a somewhat pretty beetle of a drab colour, withblack and white markings, and belonging to the greatfamily of the so-called weevils. The perfect beetle (see Plate XXXVL, Fig. 1), on leafstalks of strawberry plant is about ^in. in length, andlike many of this group seems somewhat bulky for thelength of the insect. It was described by Mr. Pascoe, aneminent English worker on this family, in the year 1873,from specimens which had been sent to him from Victoria,but around Melbourne this beetle has been known formany years prior to its being named by the gentlemanhere mentioned. The larvae (see Figs. 2 and 5) are yellowish-whitegrubs, a trifle larger than the one shown in the sectionof strawberry plant in Fig. 5. The pupae (Fig. 3) have the peculiar