RAVAGES OF MAGGOTS. 



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and a grain, which is generally shrivelled, as if depri- 

 ved of nourishment; and although the pollen may fur- 

 nish the larvae with food in the first instance, they 

 soon crowd around the lower part of the germen, and 

 there, in all probability, subsist on the matter destined 

 to have formed the grain. '* 



Germination of a grain of wheat. , the heat t of the grain, 

 the part devoured by the insect, fe, bag o the s^ed. c, the root. 

 d, vessels to convey the nutriment for the root, e, feathers 

 conveying the pollen to fructify the seed. 



Another intelligent observer, Mr Gorrie, of Annat 

 Gardens, Perthshire, found that by the first of August 

 all the maggots leave the ears, and go into the ground 

 about the depth of half an inch, where it is probable 

 they pass the winter in the pupa state. 't 



It is interesting to learn that this destructive in- 



* Loudon's Mag. of Nat., Hist., Nov. 1829. p: 450. 

 t Ibid, September, 1829, p. 324. 



