. A text-book of agricultural zoology. Zoology, Economic. ^^•3 I n nr Fig. 57.—Apple-Blossom Weevil (Antlwnomvs pomorum), ij Larva; ii, adult; iii, pupa. blossom-buds are commencing to expand. The female then bores a hole into the expanding bud by means of her spatulate rostrum, which has a pair of sharp biting mandibles at the tip, and then de- posits an egg in the hole she has formed. The maggot hatched from this ovum remains feeding in the blossom, which does not open {fig. 58, ii), and which soon becomes brown and withered, and ^j,^ readily shakes off and falls to the ground. Pupation take
. A text-book of agricultural zoology. Zoology, Economic. ^^•3 I n nr Fig. 57.—Apple-Blossom Weevil (Antlwnomvs pomorum), ij Larva; ii, adult; iii, pupa. blossom-buds are commencing to expand. The female then bores a hole into the expanding bud by means of her spatulate rostrum, which has a pair of sharp biting mandibles at the tip, and then de- posits an egg in the hole she has formed. The maggot hatched from this ovum remains feeding in the blossom, which does not open {fig. 58, ii), and which soon becomes brown and withered, and ^j,^ readily shakes off and falls to the ground. Pupation takes place in the dead blossom, the weevil eating its way out when mature. Sometimes the blossoms. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Theobald, Frederick Vincent, 1868-1930. Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons
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