Uist), 1) . Ne iy te = 7 i, we i on a ae ne Sank 7 vi cae f Deal Wy, a, As Mi nh ns a T rata, Ge! POP CAL ay a ae Dyan i ~ <4 7 aé 4,% NU = ry ary ning - 7 ’ 7 oi a ee nl “i Fi a ay 1 ek. : ory, aay en ly Le fe ove 7) ae aft, ae ci OF : : Historic, archived document Do not assume content reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices. oe V. CIRCULAR NO: 32, SECOND SERIES—REVISED EDITION. United States Department of Agriculture, DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. THE LARGER APPLE-TREE BORERS. Among the most troublesome of the insect pests with which the fruit-growers of the United States have to deal are two species of boring beetles known, from the appearance of their larve, as the round-headed and flat-headed apple-tree borers. In addition, there is another species called the spotted apple-tree borer, after the adult form, and to distinguish it from the round-headed borer, which it closely resembles. The two species first mentioned are common and injurious throughout a wide extent of country—the former to seed fruit trees, the latter also to stone fruit, as well as to a great variety of forest and ornamental trees; the third is a comparatively rare insect and rather exceptionally injurious so far as known. THE ROUND-HEADED APPLE-TREE BORER: (Saperda candida Fab.) Fig. 1.—Saperda candida: a, larva. from side; hb, from above; c, female beetle; d, pupa—all enlarged one-third (original). INTRODUCTORY REMARKS AND DESCRIPTION. The round-headed uapple-tree borer is next after the codling moth, the worst enemy to apple culture in America. The first intimation that the grower may have of the presence of this borer in his trees, unless he be forewarned, is in their retarded srowth and the sawdust-like castings, consisting of excrementitious 2 matter and gnawings of woody fiber, which the larvee extrude from openings into their burrows. This manifestation is usually accom- panied by more or less evident discoloration of the bark, and, in early spring, particularly, slight exudation of sap. The parent of this borer is a beautiful beetle, measuring from three-fourths to nearly an inch in length, the male being percep- tibly narrower than the female. The antenne are long, stout, and many-jointed, being somewhat shorter than the body of the insect itself. These organs and the legs are gray, the under surface of the body and the head are silvery white, and the upper surface is light yellowish brown with two longitudinal white stripes extending through the thorax and elytra or wing-covers to the tip, as shown in the accompanying illustration (fig. 1 ¢). The larva when mature measures from three-fourths to a little over an inch in length (22-26 mm). It is fleshy and somewhat erub-like in appearance, cylindrical in form, and light yellow in color. The head is darker, particularly about the mandibles, which are nearly black. The first thoracic segment is large and broad and bears on its summit numerous small tubercles, placed close together. | The remaining joints of the body are narrower, the constrictions between them being deep and conspicuous. The first seven abdom- inal segments bear on the upper surface of each a peculiar elevated process, as shown at figure 1, 6. It is destitute of organs of loco- motion. The pupa, illustrated at d, is nearly as long as the adult insect, which it resembles in a superficial manner, the head being bent down toward the breast, and the legs and long antennz folded upon the } ventral surface. Its color is similar to that of the larva. Saperda candida was given its specific name by Fabricius in the year 1787, and was again described as new by Thomas Say, in 1824, under the name of S. bivittata, who remarked at the time upon its being injurious to the apple tree by boring into the wood. DISTRIBUTION. This species is native to this country and present in injurious num- bers in practically every State of the apple-growing region east of | the Rocky Mountains. It inhabits, like so many other injurious | insects, the upper austral and transition life zones, comprising the — better agricultural portion of all, except the extreme southern States. It has been reported to occur in one locality, Agricultural College, | Miss., which lies in what is considered the lower austral zone. As with many other injurious species again, it is in the older States, particu- larly New England and New York, where orchards have been long established, that injuries are most pronounced. Until recently this 3 species was not known as especially injurious about the District of Columbia, but at the present time it has become very abundant and destructive, whole orchards of both young and mature trees having succumbed to its ravages. Its known distribution as shown by published and unpublished records, in the possession of this office, includes Canada, all of New Kngland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary- land, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and restricted localities in Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi. FOOD PLANTS AND NATURE OF INFESTATION. This borer is practically limited in its food supply to the apple and kindred woody plants. It is most injurious to quince and apple, and somewhat less troublesome to pear. It also infests crab apple and thorns of different species, mountain ash, choke-berry and June- berry, in short practically all except one or two kinds of the trees and shrubs belonging to genera now included in the restricted family of Pomacez. The wild plants are its natural food, but cer- tain varieties at least, although often inhabited by this insect, are for some reason not so susceptible to injury by it as our cultivated trees. This species inhabits more particularly the base of the trunk of trees, often being found below the surface of the earth, especially in young nursery stock. It is to such trees that it is most injurious as it soon works around the tree, separating the wood from the bark, interfering with the flow of sap and producing the effect of girdling, a result which is very apt to be produced even when no more than two or three larvee occur upon the same tree. Very frequently four or five larvze dwell together in a single small tree and in a short time injure it entirely beyond recovery. In old trees larvee occur somewhat higher up the trunk, in exceptional cases at a distance of several feet from the base or even, still more rarely, in the lower limbs; but as a rule they are seldom found except within a foot or two of the base. Trees of all sizes are frequently killed or so weak- ened that they are unable to mature a full crop of fruit. The experience of many years shows that injury follows where grasses, weeds, or other rank vegetable growth are permitted to accu- mulate about the trunks of the trees; since the beetle, like all noc- turnal insects, naturally seeks concealment, and the conditions thus afforded are most favorable for its attack on cultivated plants. LIFE HISTORY. The beetles make their first appearance of the season late in May and in June, according to locality, coming forth from the trunks of the trees in which they have bred during the night, at which time ~ the species, being nocturnal, may be seen in flight. During the day the beetles hide away in some secluded place under leaves or in simi- lar situations on the trees which they inhabit. Soon after their first appearance the sexes mate and eggs are deposited. The female first makes an incision in the bark, whether by means of her mandibles or ovipositor is not plain, causing it to split slightly, then turning head upward, places an egg under the bark nearly a quarter of an inch from the incision, accompanying the deposition by the extrusion of ‘‘a gummy fluid which covers and secures it to its place and usually fills up the aperture. In young trees with tender bark the egg is usually thoroughly hidden while in older trees it is sometimes so shallowly imbedded as to be readily seen.” ‘“The egg is pale rust-brown in color, one-eighth of an inch long, one-third as wide at the middle, flattened so as to have a depth of about one-third the width.” Its shell is fairly tough and resistant, not sculptured and sufficiently plastic, when laid, to receive impres- | sions from the woody fibers between which it is forced. Oviposition has been observed from June to September in a single locality (Law- rence, Kansas) but June is the month in which most of the eggs are laid.’ Fitch and others observed the beetles in the trees, near Albany, N. Y., as early as April. The period of the egg from the time it is laid until it hatches rests upon the statement of Mr. EK. W. Junkins that a young borer larva was observed July 7 from eggs” that were deposited June 15, which would give a period of twenty-two days. The larvee soon after hatching tunnel under the bark and feed upon the sap-wood, gradually working their way upward and after- ward downward, usually, particularly in young trees, remaining | within a short distance of, or below the surface of, the ground. By the beginning of the second year the larve, according to recent | observations conducted by the writer, attain an average growth of about five-eighths of aninch. The larval growth will naturally vary according to temperature, moisture, and quantity of food available for consumption, and other conditions. With the approach of cold weather the larvee cease feeding, but with the beginning of warm spring weather—in the District of Columbia as early as the latter days of March—they again commence, forcing their excrement and | castings consisting of gnawed particles of wood out through holes which they make in their burrows. By the end of the second year the larvee have increased considerably in size and have now pene- trated deeper into the solid heart-wood, their burrows being closely 1 Above quotations from account by Riley in New York Weekly Tribune, Feb. 20, 1878; Kans. Hort. Rept. for 1879, pp. 196-201. *New England Homestead, January 3, 1885. 5 packed behind them with castings. The third year the larve enaw outwards to the bark, form a pupal cell with the assistance of their castings and, with their heads pointing toward the bark, trans- form to pupe. With the approach of May and June they cut their way out by means of their powerful mandibles and issue through a round hole as mature beetles. 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