. Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York. rote extensivelyof its ravages inFrance in 1736. In1760 it had increasedto so alarming anextent that the atten- „ , , . Fig 1 —StTOTROGA cbrkalella: a, the larva; o, the pupa; c, tion of the crovern- ttie moth; d, the wings of a paier variety; «, the egg; /, k^rnel ^ of corn showing the work of the larva; g, labial paipus of the ment was m^le moth; U, anal segment of the pup i-all enlarged except /. (From RUey.) commissioners of the Academy of Science of Paris were appointed to visit the province ofAngoumois
. Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York. rote extensivelyof its ravages inFrance in 1736. In1760 it had increasedto so alarming anextent that the atten- „ , , . Fig 1 —StTOTROGA cbrkalella: a, the larva; o, the pupa; c, tion of the crovern- ttie moth; d, the wings of a paier variety; «, the egg; /, k^rnel ^ of corn showing the work of the larva; g, labial paipus of the ment was m^le moth; U, anal segment of the pup i-all enlarged except /. (From RUey.) commissioners of the Academy of Science of Paris were appointed to visit the province ofAngoumois and investigate and report on the insect. As stated in theirreport: The insect was found to swarm in all the wheat fields and grana-ries in Angoumois and of the neighboring provinces, and the afllictedinhabitants were thereby deprived not only of their principal staplewherewith they were wont to pay their annual rents, taxes, and tithes,but were threatened with famine and pestilence from the want ofwholesome bread. It is shown in its several stages in Fig. History in the United early as in 1730, it was operating in North Carolina. In 1768, acommunication upon it was sent to the American Philosophical Society 380 FOETY-EIGHTH BEPOET ON THE STATE MUSEUM of Philadelphia, entitled Observations Concerning the Fly-Weevilthat Destroys Wheat. Before the middle of the present century, ithad become largely distributed over the wheat belt from the Atlan-tic westward to the Mississippi river, but, fortunately, it seems to beless destructive as it extends northward, not being able, apparently, toendure the cold of severe witters. Rare in New York has never been particularly injurious in New York — indeed, itis rather a rare insect therein, having only come under my notice onthree or four occasions. Dr. Fitch, writing of the insect in 1861, statesthat it had made its appearance in the museum of the State Agricultu-ral Society ten years before, in wheat preserve
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