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In the north of England, where it is much used as a killing bait for trout, the insect is commonly known by the name of 'bracken-clock, a name of the same import with the Staffordshire term 'fernshaw, each signifying 'fern-beetle." Another correspondent says Scarabaeus horticola, called "the chovy" in Norfolk, is there deemed very injurious to apple-trees, and other trees and plants, as it feeds both on leaves and all the parts of the flower.
Bree describes the Scarabaeus horticola as "exceedingly destructive in gardens. In the same garden my attention was also called to the ravages committed by this depredator on the apples, by gnawing holes in the young fruit; which consequently dies and falls of, or at least becomes much blemished.
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