The Life of the Weevil 



food-cylinders dry up so quickly, the Vine- 

 weevil lags behind, exposed as she is to 

 periods of unemployment due to the absence 

 of properly softened food. It is in Septem- 

 ber and October that I obtain the first adults, 

 splendid gems, enclosed, until spring, in their 

 casket, the underground shell. At this 

 season there is an abundance of buried 

 nymphs and larvae. Many of the grubs even 

 have not yet left their cylinders; but, to 

 judge by their size, they will hardly linger 

 much longer. At the first frosts, all will 

 become torpid and postpone their further 

 development until the end of the winter. 



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