. Insect transformations . orating another nutwhen the first is consumed. It is said also that heis very careful to preserve the original hole made bythe mother, by gnawing around its inner edges, inorder to facilitate his exit,* which he effects when the * Bingley, Animal Biography, vol. viii, p. 261. GRUBS OF WEEVILS. 243 nut falls to the ground in September or hole found in the nut a|)[)cais much too smallto have admitted of its passage; l)ut from being verysoft it no doubt stretches itself out for the purpose,using its short claws as instruments of motion. Rsel, in order to obs
. Insect transformations . orating another nutwhen the first is consumed. It is said also that heis very careful to preserve the original hole made bythe mother, by gnawing around its inner edges, inorder to facilitate his exit,* which he effects when the * Bingley, Animal Biography, vol. viii, p. 261. GRUBS OF WEEVILS. 243 nut falls to the ground in September or hole found in the nut a|)[)cais much too smallto have admitted of its passage; l)ut from being verysoft it no doubt stretches itself out for the purpose,using its short claws as instruments of motion. Rsel, in order to observe the transtbrmation ofthese nut grubs, put a number of them, at the com-mencement of winter, into glasses half hllod withearth, covered with green turf. ^11 ot them dugdirectly dt)wn into the earth, remained there allthe winter, and did not change into pupa? till the fol-lowing June; the perfect weevils appeared from the1st till about the 20th of August, but still kept underground for the first week alter their ^0. ^
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