FACKABDl. 



THE APPLE-WEEVIL — PLUM-WEEVIL. 



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curved black line before the ocellated patch on the inner angle, which 

 line is edged with a coppery tint. Plate LXIX, Fig. 9, represents the 

 caterpillar, with the worm-eaten apple, the cocoon {i), and the chrysalis 

 and moth. 



Remedies. — This troublesome pest may be partially destroyed by gath- 

 ering the " windfalls," though the larva often deserts the worm-eaten 

 apples before it falls. The best remedy is that suggested by Dr. Trim- 

 ble, who binds bands of hay about the trees from July until the middle 

 of September. The larv?e crawl under these bands and there spin their 

 silken cocoons, when every fortnight the bauds can be removed and the 

 worms destroyed. Dr. Le Barm recommends for Northern Illinois that 

 the bandages be in place a month after the blooming of the trees ; that 

 they be examined seven weeks after the falling of the blossoms ; that 

 three subsequent examinations be made at intervals of twelve days, 

 and a final one after the leaves of the tree have fallen. In the latitude 

 of Saint Louis, Mr. Riley suggests that the first examination be made 

 not later than six weeks after the falling of the blossoms ; and that four 

 subsequent examinations, at intervals of twelve days, be made between 

 it and the final one in the autumn when the apples are gathered. 



The Apple-Weevil, Anthonomus quadrigihhus Say. (Figs. 64, 65.) — Boring in the 

 apple ; a long, slender maggot, transforming in the apple into a weevil, with a snout 

 nearly as long as the body. 



Fig. 64. — Apple-Weevil, adult, a, 

 nat. size; b, c, enlarged. (After 

 Eiley.) 



Fig. 65. — Apple-Weevil, a, pupa; h, 

 maggot ; both enlarged. 



This weevil, which need not be confounded with the plum-weevil, 

 is smaller, and has a longer beak. With its long snout it drills holes 

 into the apple, deposits an egg, and the grub goes right to the heart of 

 the apple, feeding around the core for nearly a month, when it trans- 

 forms in the fruit, which does not fall. It remains two or three weeks 

 in the pupa state, not leaving the fruit until it becomes a beetle. — 

 (Riley.) 



INSECTS AFFECTING THE PLUxAI. 



The Plum-Weevil, Coitotrachelus nenupliar Herbst. — Puncturing the young fruit ; a 

 weevil, like a dried plum-bud in general appearance, whose grub in the plum causes 

 the fruit to prematurely fall. 



The plum-weevil has nearly cut off the fruit in the Eastern States, so 

 that comparatively little is raised. The following condensed account 

 is taken from " The Guide to the Study of Insects:" " This beetle is a 

 short, stout, thick weevil, and the snout is curved, rather longer than 

 the thorax, and bent on the chest when at rest. It is dark brown, 

 spotted with white, ochre-yellow and black, and the surface is rough, 

 from which the beetle, as Harris says, looks like a dried bud when 

 shaken from the tree. When the fruit is set, the beetles sting the 



