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1 have described above is very common 

 in the gardens near London. 



There does not appear to be any more 

 reasonable mode of preventing this insect 

 from proceeding in its business of pro- 

 creation, than by putting round the 

 branches where it is observed to be 

 abundant, some birdlime or common tar, 

 which will hold them as they crawl, and 

 prevent their getting to the buds, the 

 beetle is bred in the ground, and al- 

 though it has wings, it is more com- 

 monly observed crawling on the stems of 

 the trees than on the wing. 



A. is a representation of this beetle of 

 its natural size. 



B. is the larva of its full size, as it is 

 usually found, both on the blossoms and 

 leaves of the apple in the spring. 



C. is the same changed into a chry- 

 salis, and is often found just under small 

 clods of earth in the spring, and not un- 

 frequently in hollows of the bark of the 

 tree. 



From the great tendency of these in- 



