Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . od in theplantation in a similar manner. In the case of the felled materialstacked in the Changa Manga Fuel Depot (the plantation chiefly suppliesfuel for Lahore), the beetles have in the past so riddled the whole ofthe sapwood of the stacked billets as greatly to lower their value, oreven reduced them to such a condition that their sale could not be of billets so treated are covered on the outside with a yellowish wood-powder pushed out of the tunnels of the excavating beetles, and the woodhas a dilapidated decaying app
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . od in theplantation in a similar manner. In the case of the felled materialstacked in the Changa Manga Fuel Depot (the plantation chiefly suppliesfuel for Lahore), the beetles have in the past so riddled the whole ofthe sapwood of the stacked billets as greatly to lower their value, oreven reduced them to such a condition that their sale could not be of billets so treated are covered on the outside with a yellowish wood-powder pushed out of the tunnels of the excavating beetles, and the woodhas a dilapidated decaying appearance which militates against a chance ofits sale, whilst at the same time its weight is greatly reduced, and with thisits commercial value (cf. fig. 27). At Changa Manga S. crassuin commences laying the first eggs of theyear in April, the beetles usually being plentiful in the plantations. Inthe middle of May but few are to be seen, but the wood-stacks are full oflarvae and pupae. A second lot of eggs are laid in June-July, giving rise to PLATR X. «. QC O
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