. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . all much enlarged. (After Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr.) The larva is a footless, cylindrical, whitish grub, about one-thirdinch long, with a small brown head, and usually lies in a curvedposition as in Fig. 431. Life History.âThe beetles hibernate under grass, leaves, andother trash on the ground in or near the orchard, or in neighboringwoodlaiids, and commence to emerge just liefore the fruit treesbloom in the spring. They feed somewhat on the buds, unfolding * Conotrachelus nenuphar Herbst. Family CurculionidoR. See C. , Bulletin 98, 111
. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . all much enlarged. (After Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr.) The larva is a footless, cylindrical, whitish grub, about one-thirdinch long, with a small brown head, and usually lies in a curvedposition as in Fig. 431. Life History.âThe beetles hibernate under grass, leaves, andother trash on the ground in or near the orchard, or in neighboringwoodlaiids, and commence to emerge just liefore the fruit treesbloom in the spring. They feed somewhat on the buds, unfolding * Conotrachelus nenuphar Herbst. Family CurculionidoR. See C. , Bulletin 98, 111. Agr. Exp. Sta.; S. A. Forbes, Bulletin, 108, ibid.;J. M. Stedman Bulletin 64, Mo. Agr. Exp. Sta.; E. P. Taylor, Bulletin 21,Mo. State Fruit Exp. Sta.; A. L. Quaintance, Yearbook U. S. Dept. Agr.,1905, p. 325; Circular 120, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agr. SOME INSECTS INJURIOUS TO ORCHARD FRUITS 577 leaves and blossoms, but mostly on tli(> young fruit as soon as itis set; indeed, in New England the beetles do not emerge until. Fig. 432.â1, young plums showing crescent-shapod egg punctures of thepkun curculio; 2, adult curcuho on young peachâfour times naturalsize. (After Quaintance, U. S. Dept. Agr.) a week or two after the apple blossoms fall. The females com-mence to lay eggs in the young fruits as soon as formed. The
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