. Animal life in field and garden . s way inside. Oncethere, it eats theheart of the bud, es-pecially the partthat would have be-come fruit, the littlepod with its done, it takeson its insect form. Another weevil,equally small and equally numerous, Clover-hay worm 1,2, larvas; 3, cocoon ; 4, chrysalis;rnn« npr^l? nnH npplr 5, 6, moth with wings spread and closed;lUnb neCK auu ueOK ^^ ^^^^ covered with silken web. with this one in de-stroying clover blossoms. It is black, with yellowlegs. Both abound in cultivated fields. In winterthey can be found gathered at the foot of trees, wait
. Animal life in field and garden . s way inside. Oncethere, it eats theheart of the bud, es-pecially the partthat would have be-come fruit, the littlepod with its done, it takeson its insect form. Another weevil,equally small and equally numerous, Clover-hay worm 1,2, larvas; 3, cocoon ; 4, chrysalis;rnn« npr^l? nnH npplr 5, 6, moth with wings spread and closed;lUnb neCK auu ueOK ^^ ^^^^ covered with silken web. with this one in de-stroying clover blossoms. It is black, with yellowlegs. Both abound in cultivated fields. In winterthey can be found gathered at the foot of trees, wait-ing for the clover to bloom before they go to work. You might think these two weevils enough todestroy this useful forage plant; but there areothers still, some larger and some smaller, and alleager to get at the poor clover. It would almostseem as if insects had agreed to attack especiallythose plants that are useful to man. They setto work, by threes, by fours, by tens, and even byhundreds if need be, to carry out their ruinous. 330 ANIMAL LIFE IN FIELD AND GARDEN operations, some on the flowers, others on the roots,and still others on the leaves and stems of onr mostvaluable plants. The grapevine has its caterpil-lars, beetles, and lice; wheat feeds destroyers stillmore numerous and varied, such as weevils, moths,white worms, gnats, and many others; and for thepear-tree alone we can count five hundred ravagers,perhaps more. Do they want to starve us, then? Jules againinquired. What shall I say? They go to work in a way tofrighten one. You ask their motive. I will try toshow you some other time; but now let us finish ourtalk on the enemies of clover. This one, here in my hand, is known by thelearned as the clover-hylast. It is a tiny brownbeetle with truncated wing sheaths like those of thebark-beetle, which it closely resembles. In fact itbelongs to the same family. While the clover-weevil is busy destroying the blossoms, this creaturestays in the ground and gnaws the root
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