Z$1 THE CORN WEEVIL. 



the insides of artichokes, thistles, and other plants; 

 and others devour the leaves of trees and vegetables. 



The perfect insects have clavate antennas, seated 

 on the snout, which is horny and prominent. They 

 have also four thread-shaped feelers. 



One division of the Weevils feed on trees and 

 shrubs, inserting their beak into the tender branches, 

 and by this means extracting their juices. The 

 Curculis alliarue has been observed with its beak 

 plunged into the twig of a crab-tree, as far as the 

 place from whence the antennae arise. Another 

 division feed solely on plants. Others live on grain, 

 wood, and on some of the species of fungi ; and a 

 lew under the surface of the earth. 



THE CORN WEEVIL* 



Is well known to most farmers from the devasta- 

 tions that it often makes in their granaries. It is of 

 a black-brown colour, and scarcely more than a 

 tenth of an inch in length. Its snout is long and 

 small ; and the thorax is punctured, and nearly as 

 long as the abdomen. 



The parent insect lays its eggs in grains of corn, 

 probably one in each grain. Here the larvae, on being- 

 hatched, continue for some time to live, and it is 

 very difficult to discover them, as they lie concealed 

 •within. They increase their size, and with it their 

 dwelling, at the expense of the interior or larinace- 



* Synonyms. Curculio granarius. Linn. — Calendra granaria. 



Tabricius. Weevil in many parts of the country. 



