THE INSECTS OF MAY. 



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der leaves and burls and opening blossoms of flowers and fruit 



trees. 

 The White-pine weevil flies about in warm days. We have 



found its burrows winding irregularly over the inner surface 



of the bark and leading into the sap-wood. Each cell, in which 



it hibernates, in the middle of 

 March, contains the yellowish 

 white footless grub. Early in 

 April it changes to a pupa, and a 

 month after the beetle appears, 

 |and in a few days deposits its 

 egg under the bark of old pine 

 trees. It also oviposits in the 

 terminal shoots of pine saplings, 

 dwarfing and permanently .de- 

 forming the tre'e. Associated 

 with this weevil we have found 

 the smaller, rounder, more cylin- 

 240. Cut Worm and Moth. dricalj whitish grubs of the 



Hylurgus terebrans, which mines the inner layers of the bark, 

 slightly grooving the sap-wood. Later in April it pupates, 

 and its habits accord in general with those of Pissodes strobi. 

 Another Pine weevil also abounds at this time, as well as Otio- 

 rhynchus picipes (Fig. 241), which injures 

 beans, etc. 



Cylindrical bark-borers, which are little, 

 round, weevil-like beetles, are now flying 

 about fruit trees, to lay their eggs in the 

 bark. Associated with the Pissodes, we . jnBBt m 

 may find in April the galleries of Tomicus JrKfmmtifc \. 1 

 piui, branching out from a common centre. 

 They are filled up with fine sawdust, and, 

 according to Dr. Fitch, are notched in the 

 sides "in which the eggs have been placed, 

 where they would remain undisturbed by 

 the beetle as it crawled backwards and forth 241> G *rden Weevil, 

 through the gallery." These little beetles have not the long 

 snouts of the weevils, hence they cannot bore through the 

 outer bark, but enter into the burrows made the preceding 

 year, and distribute the eggs along the sides (Fitch). Another 

 Tomicus, more dangerous than the preceding, feeds exclusively 



