PITCHY-LEGGED WEEVILS. 105 



lilossom Weevil (and of some other kinds), we may 

 clear many sorts of fruit trees and bush fruit simply 

 by jarring the boughs. Thus the Weevil falls, and 

 we only need to use such plans as common sense will 

 teach us, to keep it from getting back again. With 

 the Apple Weevil, or those that are shaken down from 

 the trees, such methods as putting a rough rope, or a 

 ring of anything they will not cross on the ground, 

 round the trunk, answer well. This may be made of 

 twisted hay (or anything preferred), which has been 

 dipped in spirits of tar, or in tar and coarse oil, so 

 that it may keep wet and sticky ; or caustic gas-lime 

 may be shovelled round, of course taking care not to 

 hurt the bark. 



In Cornwall, where the Pitchy-legged Weevils, or 

 other kinds of Otiorhynclms, injure the fruit to an 

 extent causing serious loss in the great Easpberry 

 gardens, it is found to answer well for men to go round 

 with freshly tarred boards, place the boards below a 

 bush and shake ; the Weevils fall on the tar and stick 

 to it. Thus, clearing the Weevils and retarring the 

 boards frequently, the Weevils are got rid of at a 

 paying rate. 



The principle of alarming the Weevils, so as to 

 make them fall, may be applied to many kinds of 

 Weevil attack, bearing in mind that the Weevils com- 

 monly fall oil the first alarm ; and we must give a 

 little attention to their habits, or they may all have 

 dropped down and secured themselves before we have 

 set about frightening them in full form. 



The Otiorhynchi (the Vine and Pitchy-legged Wee- 

 vils) feed by night, and on the gleam of a light they 

 will drop ; therefore if a lantern is taken to begin 

 operations with we are apt to find nothing to catch. 



Several kinds of Weevils feed on Peas, Beans, and 

 Clover leaves, doing thereby most serious harm. 



The terribly destructive Pea Weevils (see Fig. 84, 

 p. 106) were formerly supposed to feed only by day ; 

 then they fall at the vibration of a foot, and bury 



