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should be harvested as soon as possible after reaching maturity. 
The seed should be thrashed or shelled at the earliest possible moment 
in order that the seeds may be more easily and cheaply treated to 
Fic. 24.—Storing beans, peas, or cowpeas in the pod will not prevent the weevils from 
ruining the beans if they are already in the seeds. Neither will it prevent them from 
emerging, as indicated by the holes they have made in the pods shown above in 
making their escape from the seeds. One pod has been cut to expose the infested 
beans within. Work of the common bean weevil. Enlarged. 
keep the weevil grubs from feeding and maturing.. Storing in 
the pod does not confine the weevils. The grubs continue their de- 
velopment and transform to the adult in the unshelled as well as 
in the shelled seeds. Adult weevils can gnaw their way out of dried 
