The Pea-Weevil: The Eggs 
the'same time easier to enter and less easy to 
wound. Moreover, as the whole pea is too 
much for a single grub, the loss of substance 
is reduced to the piece preferred by the 
consumer; and this piece is not the essential 
part of the pea. 
Given other conditions, with seeds either 
very small or exceedingly large, we should 
see the results changing entirely. In the 
first case, the germ would be gnawed like 
the remainder and would perish by the tooth 
of the too niggardly served grub; in the 
second case, the abundant food would allow 
of several guests. The common vetch and 
the broad bean, exploited in the absence of 
the pea, tell us something in this connection: 
the smaller seed, devoured all but the skin, 
is a ruin whose germination we may expect 
in vain; the larger, on the contrary, despite 
the Weevil’s numerous cells, is still capable 
of sprouting. 
Admitting that the number of eggs on 
the pod is always much greater than that of 
the peas contained and that, on the other 
hand, each pea is the exclusive property of 
one grub, we wonder what becomes of the 
surplus. Do these larve perish outside, 
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