. Animal life in field and garden . thusavoid the vigilant sparrow it has never seen? Itis instinct, the inspiration that protects all animal-kind in the fierce battle of life. CHAPTER XXXVIII THE GEAIN-WEEVIL UNCLE PAUL had sent old Jacques to town tobuy the drug they were going to apply toSimons wheat. Meanwhile he took occasion totell his young hearers about the wheat-devourer thatwas to have the benefitof the drug. The hand-ful of grain left by Si-mon was in a plate onthe table. The littleweevils were runningabout in frantic endeav-ors to escape, whileEmile with a straw waspushing them bac
. Animal life in field and garden . thusavoid the vigilant sparrow it has never seen? Itis instinct, the inspiration that protects all animal-kind in the fierce battle of life. CHAPTER XXXVIII THE GEAIN-WEEVIL UNCLE PAUL had sent old Jacques to town tobuy the drug they were going to apply toSimons wheat. Meanwhile he took occasion totell his young hearers about the wheat-devourer thatwas to have the benefitof the drug. The hand-ful of grain left by Si-mon was in a plate onthe table. The littleweevils were runningabout in frantic endeav-ors to escape, whileEmile with a straw waspushing them back intothe middle of the plate,where they cowered among the kernels of and Jules were also there, all attention towhat was going on. This ravager of our granaries, began UnclePaul, is called the grain-weevil, or, in Latin,calandra. It belongs to the order of coleoptera orbeetles. Its defensive armor is a hard brown casingfinely engraved. It has no membranous wings un-der the elytra or wing sheaths. Hence it is unable 295. larva Grain-weevilscorn-weevil; h. rice-weevil; o,d, pupa. 296 ANIMAL LIFE IN FIELD AND GARDEN to fly, but it runs fast enough and it clings to objectswith a firm grip. You see how busy Emile is keptwith his straw in preventing the prisoners grain-weevil is about four millimeters long, itsbody is of a uniform blackish brown, and its headends in a long snout, a kind of slender corselet or thorax is long, marked with finepricks or dots, and the wing sheaths are delicatelyfurrowed. The insects most striking characteristicis its long, trumpet-shaped snout. It seems to me, said Jules, I have seen otherbeetles, and rather large ones, too, with the head end-ing in a trumpet like that. Ive found them on hazels, added Louis, andthey had a long, slender beak that would make youthink the insect was smoking a long pipe. The trumpet beetles form a numerous class,and they are all weevils, but their mode of life variesfor the different speci
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