Show 00 0 0 MEANS OF FIGHTING BORERS dig away soil around base of tree and destroy larva Moun bounding mounding ding Is 19 also recommended from the missouri agricultural experiment t S tation station the methods ot of fighting both round bound find and flat bonded borers are rauch much tile the same saint the most important means of 0 combating the borer is by going through the orchard in late august or early october and digging away the soil around the base of the tree and finding the larva burrows and pir pushing bIng a sharpened wire in them until the larva Is reached and killed if the worm does not make paths straight I 1 borers in young tree enough that the wire can be pushed in it will be necessary to cut part way in with a knife two or three methods are available for making the control of borers more easy in case of older trees probably the most important method is by mounding bounding moun ding that is heaping up a little mound of earth around the base of the tree this forces the insect to deposit its egg higher on the tree so that the worm will be located higher it is much easier to level this mound of earth down around the tree to find the borer than to have to dig away the soil when vohen it Is left level however mounding bounding moun ding may not be practicable in very stony land in case of younger trees the best method Is to wrap them with a wood veneer wrapper and mound a very small amount of earth around these wrappers this makes it very difficult for the parent of the borer to get its eggs deposited in the trunk of the tree |