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BEETLES. 



cutting the Clover before the flower is fully out. 

 These Pear-shaped Weevils (Apioiis) are so very small 

 that they are hardly observable, but the damage to 

 the leafage, or patches of brownish heads in a field in 

 flower, shows where they are at work. 



There is yet one more of the common Weevil attack 

 of the Bean crops to notice ; it is that of a small 

 short- snouted Weevil (black with brown hairs and 



Fig. 85. — 1-8, Bean Beetles, grub and pupa, nat. size and mag. ; 

 injured Beans ; 9 and 10, Pea Beetle, nat. size and magnified ; 11, 

 injured Pea. 



white markings), which is often found inside Broad 

 Beans, with no signs outside of how it got there. The 

 attack happens thus : — When the Bean-pod is still in 

 its very youngest state, even still in the blossom, the 

 Ijcetle lays its egg there; the maggot, which hatches 

 from it, lies in one of the young Beans in the pod, but 

 the hole by which the egg was put in, or the maggot 

 crept in, is so small that it grows up completely with 

 the growth of the Bean. When the Beans are ripe 



