IN^SECTS INJURIOUS TO CLOVEll. 



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able injury whore clover is regularly cut in early summer 

 and fall, and need not be feared when this is not neglected. 



iNJURixG tup: leaves. 

 The Clover Leaf-weevil (Pliytonomus pundcdus Fab.). 

 TJie Clover Leaf-weevil is also a native of Europe, and 

 made its first appearance in this country in the same sec- 



FiG. 98.— Clover Leaf-weevil {Phytonomus punctatus Fabr.). a, egg 

 magnified and natural size; b b b b, larvce; c, recently hatched 

 larva;^ d, head of larva; e, jaws of the same; /, cocoon; g, same 

 magnified to sliow tlie meshes; 7^ pupa; i, weevil, natural size; 

 j, the same magnified; k, top view of the beetle; I, tarsus and 

 claws of the beetle; m, antenna of the beetle. (After Riley.) 



tion of western l^ew York as the root-borer, in 1881. Its 

 injuries during that and the following year seem to have 

 been the worst on record. Since then it has spread east 



