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should l)e got rid of out of the wood. There is no occasion 

 that anything should be wasted, for the fragments that are 

 only useful as fire-wood may be burnt long before any eggs 

 laid in them can develop through all their transformations, 

 but they should not remain in the woods. Fragments of roots 

 left in the ground should be thoroughly covered with at least 

 six inches of earth, and no logs (which are an especial haunt 

 of the beetle for oviposition) should be left about, unless some 

 of them, or of the fragments of bark, are used for traps. 

 This has been found practically useful in German forestry, and 

 if these traps were regularly examined, and the contents des- 

 troyed, they would probably be an excellent means of getting 

 rid of many of the weevils, which will frequent a clearing so 

 long as it is in progress, and the air pervaded with the scent 

 of turpentine. 



Bark-traps are made by laying pieces of bark with the inner 

 side downwards on the ground. Pine bark is said to answer 

 better than Spruce, as it remains fresh longer. The pieces 

 should be well weighted down with stones, and examined 

 early or late in the day. The number of beetles caught is 

 greatest in dull weather or during soft rain. 



Log-traps make a good decoy to attract the female beetle to 

 lay her eggs ; in this plan thick pieces of logs with bark on 

 them are partly buried in the ground. The beetles resort to 

 them, feed on the sap, and lay in them, and numbers of 

 beetles may thus be caught and the brood from the eggs got rid 

 of afterwards by burning the logs when convenient. 



Brush-traps are made of Pine or Spruce twigs, tied together 

 in bundles, about the size of a Birch-broom; these are scattered 

 about infested spots, and attract many weevils, which may be 

 easily shaken out of them and destroyed. 



It cannot be too strongly insisted on that all such places 

 for propagation as dying trees, waste timber, broken bark, 

 stocks, roots, &c,, that cannot be removed, buried, or utilised 

 as traps, should be carefully gathered together and hiirnt. 



The neighbourhood of forest saw-pits should be similarly 

 attended to, and any logs of felled timber, whether in or out 

 of the woods, should be observed relatively to their serving for 

 breeding-places. In the summer the beetles may be found 

 pairing on planks, cleft timber, &c., far from woods. 



It is, however, not worth while (unless special circumstances 

 should point out otherwise) to meddle with rubbish under 

 Pine trees, such as Moss, dry Pine needles, small twigs, and 

 such like ; the weevil does not feed on these, and does not lay 

 in them (for they would not aftord food to the maggot) ; it 

 only shelters itself in them for the winter, and the small 

 number that would be destroyed would scarcely repay the labour. 



