Model of grapes, with beetles and grub - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62528 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 50.01 VITACEAE Vitis sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Model of grapes, with beetles and grub | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Model of grapes, with beetles and grub | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Model of grapes, with beetles and grubUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Display case of Vine beetle - Otiorhynchus slucatus, Fab. and other sps. Vine leaf eaten by beetles. Chrysalis magnified (Diagram), perfect beetle (O. sulcatus and O picipes, Grub or lava and chryalis or pupa, and diagram of grub magnifi, ed. Black vine weevil - O sulcatus - and others of the genus do great harm by feeding on shoots, leaves, and buds of various bush fruits and other garden and hot house plants. The grubs also do harm by feeding on the roots. The eggs are laid a little, below the surface of the ground, and the maggots are to be found from about August until the following spring, at the roots of their food plants. The Chrysalids may be found in April, laying about 3 or 4 inches below the surface. The weevils, which ap, pear shortly after, are wingless, and shelter themselves by day in any convenient place, as crevices in walls, under rough bark, or under loose stones near the plants, and come out at night. Prevention and remedies; The best remedy is to shake the beetl, es down at night on cloths or papers, or tarred boards. They drop on disturbance, or when a light shines on them, therefore it is desirable in hothouses to place the cloths by daylight, and be ready, when the light is thrown on, to gather up what fall, before they can creep away. In attack to Raspberry plantations, or out door plants, it answers for one man to carry a wooden tray smeared inside with tar, and another to tap the bush, the weevils drop and are held fast; the beetles caught are scalded,, and the tar renewed at every few bushes. To get rid of grubs in infested Vine borders; the soil should be changed if possible, and the roots dressed with soot lime or other applications; all the maggots that can be found should be picked. Watering, the dilute ammoniacal liquor, or with a solution of salt has been found useful. With pot plants it is often best to shake the earth completely away and repot in clean soil. Pointing old walls, and removing shelter will prevent such attack. | ||||