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ing to pick up something, and perhaps 

 part of them may look for a companion, 

 as we find at that time the two sexes 

 often in company ; and while the male 

 chafers are looking for nourishment on 

 the hazel, the females of them look at 

 the same for a place where they may 

 safely lay their eggs, and where the 

 future young larvae may find sufficient 

 nourishment, and this place is always a 

 young, green, and soft nut, in which the 

 kernel is still very small j this the chafer 

 bores through with its rostrum, and 

 knows by this not only whether the nut 

 is good and sound, but also whether 

 another chafer has not put an egg in it 

 already, and hence we seldom or never 

 find more than one larva in a nut. If it 

 finds the nut in the required state, it 

 proceeds to lay its egg in the kernel in 

 such a manner that it remains sticking to 

 it, and after a fortnight or sometimes 

 later, the larva comes out, which acquires 

 its full size in September or October, at 

 which time we find very often the nut 

 filled with a larva and its excrements 



