. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS. 187 can readily see the eggs with the naked eye by carefully removing the skin of the fruit behind the crescent cut. The eggs hatch in from three to seven days, and the little white grubs burrow into and feed upon the flesh around the stone for about a month. Infested fruits, cherries excepted, usually fall to the ground before the grubs mature. When full grown (Fig. 252), the. Fig. 254.âa Cart Gurculio-catcher in Operation, white
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS. 187 can readily see the eggs with the naked eye by carefully removing the skin of the fruit behind the crescent cut. The eggs hatch in from three to seven days, and the little white grubs burrow into and feed upon the flesh around the stone for about a month. Infested fruits, cherries excepted, usually fall to the ground before the grubs mature. When full grown (Fig. 252), the. Fig. 254.âa Cart Gurculio-catcher in Operation, white, footless grubs leave the fruits, burrow into the soil for three or four inches, where they form a little earthen cell, in which they soon change to white pupas (Fig. 252). In from three to six weeks the pupae transform to the curculios which emerge from the soil in July and August or later, and perhaps feed a little before seeking a place to pass the winter. There is thus but one brood of the insect in a year, although the cur- culios which â â sting " or lay their eggs in the young fruits in the spring are developed and emerge from the soil during the latter part of the preceding 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 perfectly resemble the original Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob); Wood, William H. S. New York, Orange Judd
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