COLEOPTEEA OR BEETLES. 



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They hibernate in the adult condition under the bark of apple 

 and other trees, &c., coming out in the spring about the time the 



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Fig. 57. — Apple-Blossom Weevil (Antlwnomvs pomorum), 

 ij Larva ; ii, adult ; iii, pupa. 



blossom-buds are commencing to expand. The female then 

 bores a hole into the expanding bud by means of her spatulate 

 rostrum, which has a pair 

 of sharp biting mandibles 

 at the tip, and then de- 

 posits an egg in the hole 

 she has formed. The 

 maggot hatched from this 

 ovum remains feeding in 

 the blossom, which does 

 not open {fig. 58, ii), 

 and which soon becomes 

 brown and withered, and ^j,^ 

 readily shakes off and falls 



to the ground. Pupation takes place in the dead blossom, the 

 weevil eating its way out when mature. Sometimes the blossoms 



Fig. 58. — Apple-Blossoms damaokh by Apple 

 Weevil (Antlumomiis pomorum), 



i, Showing hole of escape of adult ; ii, larva in 



