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in tlie spring these hatch, and the iarvse 

 feed on the petals of the flowers, and by 

 their web they draw up the whole flower 

 in a cluster. The bloom thus becomes 

 destroyed, and the larva falls to the 

 ground, where it lays itself up in the 

 chrysalic state, and in the autumn after- 

 wards, we find the beetle renewed, 

 which again perforates the wood buds of 

 the trees, and causes a similar destruc- 

 tion thereof in the following spring. 



As the larva of this beetle feeds on the 

 buds of trees in the spring of the year, 

 where a continual change is every hour 

 produced in the vegetation, we cannot 

 easily give a description of all its changes, 

 it is, however, very similar to the one 

 that inhabits the nut, and which is de- 

 scribed above. 



Mr. Knight, in his treatise of the ap- 

 ple, mentions a beetle which also com- 

 mits great destruction on the apple trees 

 in Herefordshire, but as that gentleman 

 has described its habits as different from 

 this, I do not think it the same, the one 



