INSECT INTRUDERS. 



I have found that the best way to 

 circumvent him is to place a white cloth 

 on the ground beneath the rose bush 

 and then shake the bush several times 

 sharply. The weevils true to their 

 nature will drop on to the cloth and they 

 should then be quickly collected and 

 killed. I have not discovered where the 

 grub of this beetle lives, but it may be in 

 the inside of the shoots and of the petioles 

 as I have found numbers killed by a small 

 grub which eats out the heart of them, 

 causing them to dry up. 



There is another of this tribe of beetles, 

 a much more fearsome looking brute, 

 which in North India confines itself to 

 the tree mallow (Hibiscus 

 syriacus), appearing on it in 

 the early rains. This is a 

 large bulky globular black 

 Weevil, the back of him 

 covered with knobby projec- 

 tions and the thick snout 

 being curved and held 

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