. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. an-cut roundishhole of the kind shown in our illustration. Sometimes this happens whilst the nut is still on the bush, but more frequently itdoes not occur until after the nut has fallen. When the maggot has assumed thechrysalis state it resembles the perfect beetle in form, but is whitish in colour andquite incapable of movement, the limbs being doubled up and packed close to the the early summer the beetle leaves the pupa-case and makes its way to the surfaceof the ground, and thence to the tree or bush which is in
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. an-cut roundishhole of the kind shown in our illustration. Sometimes this happens whilst the nut is still on the bush, but more frequently itdoes not occur until after the nut has fallen. When the maggot has assumed thechrysalis state it resembles the perfect beetle in form, but is whitish in colour andquite incapable of movement, the limbs being doubled up and packed close to the the early summer the beetle leaves the pupa-case and makes its way to the surfaceof the ground, and thence to the tree or bush which is in due course destined tobecome the food-plant of its offspring. When at liberty these beetles display anamount of activity which seems quite out of keeping with their short squat bodiesand long sprawling legs. In the sunshine they run very rapidly, and readily take foothold, too, as indicated by their widened and hooked feet, is so good that itrequires a comparatively large amount of force to dislodge them from an object theymay happen to be THE MOTTLED NUT-WEEVIL.(Si.\ times natural size.) THE BANDED NUT-^YEEVIL.(Nine times natural size.) NOTES AND COMMENTS.
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