The Life of the Weevil 
sated, a drop of gum oozes out which, 
after drying on the orifice of the well, marks 
the spot which they have drained. 
Others are grazing. They attack the 
tender capsules and skin them almost down 
to the seeds. Despite their tiny size, they 
nibble gluttonously; when several of them 
are feasting together, they gnaw large areas; 
but they do not actually reach the seeds, the 
food reserved for the larve. Many of them 
stroll about, seem not to care for eating. 
They meet, tease one another for a moment 
and couple. 
I do not succeed in observing the method 
of laying, which, however, must be much the 
same as that of the other Weevils who use a 
sound. The mother apparently bores a well 
with her rostrum; she then turns and places 
the egg in position by means of her oviscapt. 
I have seen larve quite -recently hatched. 
The vermin occupy the interior of a seed 
whose substance is becoming organized and 
beginning to grow firm. 
At the end of July, I open some capsules 
brought on the same day from the banks of 
the stream. In most of them the insect 
occurs in the three forms of larva, nymph 
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