TREES AND SHRUBS 



The Apple Blossom Weevil {Anthonomus pomorinn) is a small brown 

 beetle, about \ in. long. At the beginning of spring, the female lays 15-20 

 eggs, placing one in each flower bud. The larva hatches in 5-9 days, and 

 proceeds to feed on the essential parts of the blossom. In about 8 10 days 

 the larva changes to pupa, and at the end of another 10 days the perfect 

 weevil appears and escapes by boring a hole through the petals. Through 

 the summer it lives among the leaves of fruit-trees and hibernates under 

 moss or bark, or beneath stones and rubbish around the trees. The best 

 preventative is clean culture, all lichens, moss and rough bark being removed 

 from trees. On dull days the beetles may be shaken from the branches 

 into cloths, and as many as 1000 weevils have been shaken from a tree 

 at one time. 



The C lay-coloured or Raspberry Weevil (Otiorrhynchus picipes) is about 

 J in. in length, and has the somewhat brown elytra thickly covered with 

 light-coloured scales, giving it the colour of clay. Eggs are laid in the 

 summer in the ground, and the larva? feed on roots of raspberries, straw- 

 berries, and other plants throughout the autumn until the spring. The pupal 

 stage lasts about a fortnight, and the perfect weevils then appear, starting 

 on a life of depredation, feeding on the leaves and young shoots of rasp- 

 berries and fruit-trees. The weevils may be caught by holding tarred boards 

 near the ground at night, and tapping the stakes so that the insects fall 

 into the tar. 



The Red-legged, or Plum Weevil (Otiorrhynchies tencbricosus) is J jj in. 

 long, black and shiny, with dull red legs. The eggs, laid underground, hatch 

 in August and September, and the larvae feed upon strawberry and other 

 roots till the following March or April. The perfect beetle is particularly 

 partial to the foliage of Plum-trees, but is also destructive to the Raspberry, 

 Cherry, Peach, Apricot, and Nectarine. Being nocturnal in its habits, it is best 

 caught at night. 



The Nut-Weevil (Balaninus micurn) is \ in. long, dark brown or black, 



with a long, reddish-brown beak supporting elbowed antenna? at about the 



middle of its length. In June one egg is laid in each nut. The larva feeds 



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