. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. ATTACKING THE FRUIT. 133 carnivorous insects. Some of the smaller insectivorous birds are also said to devour this insect both in the larval and in the pupal condition. No. 59.—The Apple Curculio. Anthonomus quadrigibbus Say. This is a small beetle, a little smaller than a plum curculio, of a dull-brown color, having a long, thin snout, which sticks out more or less horizontally, and cannot be folded under the body, as is the case with many species of Curculio. This snout in the female is as long as
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. ATTACKING THE FRUIT. 133 carnivorous insects. Some of the smaller insectivorous birds are also said to devour this insect both in the larval and in the pupal condition. No. 59.—The Apple Curculio. Anthonomus quadrigibbus Say. This is a small beetle, a little smaller than a plum curculio, of a dull-brown color, having a long, thin snout, which sticks out more or less horizontally, and cannot be folded under the body, as is the case with many species of Curculio. This snout in the female is as long as the body; in the male it is about half that length. In addition to the prominent snout, it is furnished with four conspicuous brownish-red humps to- Avards the hinder part of its body, from which it takes its specific name, quadrigibbus. Including the snout, its length is a quarter of an inch or more. In the accompanying figure, 141, the insect is mao;nified ; a rep- . Pig. 141. resents a back view, b sl side view; the outline at the left shows its natural size. Its body is dull brown, shaded with rusty red; the thorax and anterior third of the wing- covers are grayish. This is a native American insect which formerly bred ex- clusively in the wild crabs and haws; it is single-brooded, and passes the winter in the beetle state* The beetle appears quite early, and the larva may often be found hatched before the middle of June, and in various stages of its growth in the fruit during June, July, and August. The beetle w^ith its long snout drills holes into the young apples, much like the puncture of a hot needle, the hole being round, and surrounded by a blackish margin. Those which are drilled by the insect when feeding are about one- tenth of an inch deep, and scooped out broadly at the bottom ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not p
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