Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . White-pine weevil, Pissodes larva; b, its pupa. THE INSECT WORLD. 231 making it difficult to pierce with any ordinary pin. It boreslittle holes in the leaf and flower stems of the plant, laying an^^^ in each, from which hatches indue time a white, grub-like larva,which feeds in the plant the leaves are regularly cutfor market, little trouble is experi-enced. All old leaves not neededby the plant should be removed anddestroyed, so that after midsu
Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . White-pine weevil, Pissodes larva; b, its pupa. THE INSECT WORLD. 231 making it difficult to pierce with any ordinary pin. It boreslittle holes in the leaf and flower stems of the plant, laying an^^^ in each, from which hatches indue time a white, grub-like larva,which feeds in the plant the leaves are regularly cutfor market, little trouble is experi-enced. All old leaves not neededby the plant should be removed anddestroyed, so that after midsummernone of the early leaves should re-main on the plants. If this practiceis constantly carried out no injuryneed be apprehended. The naturalfood-plant is said to be dock. In the genus Anthonomus smallspecies predominate, and the colorsare modest, but their powers of in-jury are by no means in proportionto their size. One of the most trou-blesome is the strawberry-weevil,A. signatus, which appears as a small, blackish beetle, with graypubescence, when the buds are developing, and lays an ^<g<g ineach, afterward puncturing the flower-stalk be-low the bud so as to check development. Thelarva fe
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