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The Flat-Headed Apple-Tree Borer, Fred E. Brooks
The Flat-Headed Apple-Tree Borer, Fred E. Brooks
United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications
The flat-headed apple-tree borer, a serious orchard pest throughout the greater part of United States, is found from the Atlantic to Pacific and from Florida and Texas to Canada.
The larva, or grub, of this insect (which in the adult stage is a medium-sized beetle) bores in the bark and wood of a great variety of trees, but is best known as an enemy of apple, pear, peach, and other cultivated fruit trees. Its depredations are felt in almost every locality where orchards have been planted.
Fortunately, this borer almost invariably confines its attacks to the sunny sides of trees …