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plan to encoiirjige tlu; birds or not. Tlic woodpeckers are there, 

 feeding on insects and the beetle larva(; nnder the bark. It may 

 be a good chance to spread the <liestnnt blight, but they help to 

 control the moths. They feed on hundreds of them. You see 

 them hunting everywhere. The insect-loving birds are there. 

 You find the vireos, the red-eyed vireo especially; you find the 

 American redstart; you find warblers. They are there looking 

 for the moths and weevils. Chickens were placed in the grove. 

 They search for grubs and everything they can find and, of 

 course, in doing that they destroy many of the chestnut weevils 

 and the grubs of other Avorms. 



This view shows the chestnut weevil, the Belaniniis, on the 

 burr. These can be controlled by removing the burrs imme- 

 diately, before they have tiine to come out on the nut. 



This view shows them at Avork. Several females were placed 

 on this burr, which I have cut in two. 



This view shows the long, beaklike proboscis. There is 

 another one, and another in the corner. There was another 

 one here, but it crawled around too much to be photographed. 

 How the eggs are deposited, I cannot say, but in some way, I 

 think through that long beak. They have two slim feelers, 

 with which they can take the eggs from the ovipositor to the end 

 of the beak. This view shows a lug one. The weevil, as you can 

 see in the next photograph, never withdrew its beak. There it 

 is, in the picture. This was removed and in its place larvae 

 developed. I have taken out of one nut as many as fifty-five 

 grubs of the Belanius. 



This view shows them nuituring. In this one there were as 

 many as thirty larvae. 



This view shows them in different stages ; they are practically 

 mature. Wlien they are mature, they come out through the 

 little hole in the nut and burrow in the ground. They remain 

 there until June or July, when they transform into pupae. The 

 next view shows six of them taken in July. In about two weeks 

 they mature. The next view shows six adults, three nmle and 

 three female. I think in some way the eggs are taken by means 

 of these appendages which will reach the end of the bill and 



