The Life of the Weevil 
food-cylinders dry up so quickly, the Vine- 
weevil lags behind, exposed as she is to 
periods of unemployment due to the absence 
of properly softened food. It is in Septem- 
ber and October that I obtain the first adults, 
splendid gems, enclosed, until spring, in their 
casket, the underground shell. At this 
season there is an abundance of buried 
nymphs and larve. Many of the grubs even 
have not yet left their cylinders; but, to 
judge by their size, they will hardly linger 
much longer. At the first frosts, all will 
become torpid and postpone their further 
development until the end of the winter. 
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