CLOVER - INSECTS. Various insects in juriously affect cultivated clover, of which the following are prominent: The roots are attacked by borers, and the stems by a gall-making bee tle (Lonqurin liozardil: also by a cutworm. the larva of the zebra-moth (q.v.). Weevils do great injury to clover in various parts of the plant; the worst species (11,u1cRinus trifolii) is an im portation from Europe. These minute beetles pair in early spring. and then the female gnaws a cavity in a root of two-year-old clover and places it in four to six eggs. The larvle, as soon as hatched, bore along the axes of the roots of the clover, causing the plants to weaken and often to die. Another beetle (Phytonantas panctutas), called the clover leaf-beetle, -Om( times appears in swarms, coiling about the tips of the leaves. The leaves are also attacked by a midge or gall gnat and the seeds by another (Cceidomyia frgu minieolo), the latter of \Vida is very destruc tive. It lays its eggs in the blossoms of red
clover in May and June, and these hatch into small reddish or yellowish maggots, which de stroy the forming seed. Epon reaching full growth, they wriggle out from the floret and fall tc the ground, transforming to pulp within deli cate, spherical cocoons, from which the adults issue the following spring. The larva- leave the florets just before the time of cutting the lirst crop of clover' for hay, so that if the time of cutting for this crop lie advanced two weeks, the insect will be destroyed. Another enemy to the seeds is the greenish caterpillar of a moth (Gra phulithu which devours florets and seed-vessels. The clover-hay worms, cater pillars of pyralid moths, especially Asopio cos tolis. affect stored hay in which clover is mixed.