A preliminary introduction to the study of entomologyTogether with a chapter on remedies, or methods that can be used in fighting injurious insects; insect enemies of the apple tree and its fruit, and the insect enemies of small grains . ¥—Scolyiusruguloms: a, beetle, enlarged twenty diameters; 6, small branch, showingperforations of bark, natural size; c, denuded branch showing work of insect, natural size.[After Forbes] THE NEW YORK WEEVIL. [Idhycerus noveborascensis Forst.) An insect that frequently occurs in our orchards, and one that some-times does considerable injury to different
A preliminary introduction to the study of entomologyTogether with a chapter on remedies, or methods that can be used in fighting injurious insects; insect enemies of the apple tree and its fruit, and the insect enemies of small grains . ¥—Scolyiusruguloms: a, beetle, enlarged twenty diameters; 6, small branch, showingperforations of bark, natural size; c, denuded branch showing work of insect, natural size.[After Forbes] THE NEW YORK WEEVIL. [Idhycerus noveborascensis Forst.) An insect that frequently occurs in our orchards, and one that some-times does considerable injury to different fruit-trees, is what has beencalled the New York Weevil. This insect, as will be seen by refer-ence to the accompanying figure, is a snout-beetle of large size. It isan early arrival in spring, and frequently does much harm by eating APPLE TREE AND ITS FRUIT. 161 the buds and bark of the twigs. It also gnaws into the bases oftwigs and causes them to fall, as well as eats off the leaves later in theseason. Besides all this, it has the habit of devouring the tendershoots or new growths. Like the Imbricated Snout Beetle, this weevilis gray. Saunders, in speaking of this insect, inhis work entitled Insects Injurious to Fruits,says
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