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Show HEW PEST APPEARS 111 GARDENS Strawberry Weevil Attacks Roots of Plants, Doing Much Damage. C. N. Ainslie, government expert at the experimental station established ia this eity for the study of the alfalfa weevil and to determine if possible the best method for its extermination, de-elarea de-elarea that in spite of many reports that have gained eredence, it is not the alfalfa weevil that is damaging tha strawberry patches in Utah. Severs! reports have been received at the local experiment station to the effect that the weevil is leaving the alfalfa and settling on the strawberry pianta. Mr. Ainslie has found in' his investigations that there is a bug which is damaging the strawberry fields to a considerable extent, but it is not, be says, the alfalfa weevil. The strawberry straw-berry bug, to the unernerienced eye, might be mistaken for the alfalfa weevil, wee-vil, but under close examination it is different and ita aabite are altogether different. The alfalfa weevil, it has been found, works entirety on the leaves of the plant. The strawberry bug drills at the roots and at the ''crown" of the berry plant. It does the dsmage underground. un-derground. The strawberry bug has done con-sidsrable con-sidsrable damage in other sections, though until this year it had not been noted in Utah. It is not general in the state as yet, so fsr as reports show. The plsnt attacked by the strawberry weevil is killed ultimately and the crop is severely damaged. |