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Observations on the various Insects 
Where the egrjs are laid, or on what the larva: of the Weevils 
feed, is not known. 
The beetles inhabit the broom and furze flowers early in the 
spring. 
Do the galls on the roots of beans contain the maggots of these 
weevils ? 
Another weevil, called Curculio crinita, attacks /)ea-c?-q/?s in the 
same way. 
Three hundred feet at Brecon, more or less, destroyed by this 
species, as well as a crop in Norfolk. 
Certain seasons favour, others check, their multiplication. 
Destroying crops where peas had never failed for seven years. 
Shaking the peas over tarred or painted strips of canvas a good 
remedy in the garden. 
Although soot, wood-ashes, and lime, will not destroy the 
Weevils, they render the leaves unpalatable, when dusted over 
them. 
Leaving a row of peas undusted, will prove a good decoy, when 
they may be destroyed by hot water. 
Harrowing and hoeing recommended for field-crops whilst the 
dew is upon the plants. 
Little maggots of a fly called Phytomyza nigricornis mining in 
the pea-leaves. 
In wet seasons minute maggots live inside of diseased pods. 
Peas when matured worm-eaten by the caterpillar of a moth, 
but the species has not been ascertained. 
These larva; buried themselves in July and August, and one 
spun a fine web. 
Are not the eggs laid upon the blossoms or young pods in the 
spring ? 
Humble-bees render beans abortive by drilling a hole at the base 
of the flower into the embryo pod. 
Scarlet beans and various flowers destroyed by them in the same 
way, the latter to such an extent that not a single flower in some 
beds could be found that was not punctured. 
Whether the bees resort to this mode of getting at the honey to 
save trouble, or from the flowers being too small to admit of their 
entrance, is doubtful. 
Beans spotted, distorted and iinprolifc, from the punctured 
flowers. 
Two species oi Humble-bees deieciaX in the act, namely, Bombus 
terrestris and B. lucorum. 
They form their nests in old loose iralls, at roots of trees, &c. ; 
live through the winter, and resort to the willows when in flower. 
Butcher-birds destroy Humble-bees and tlic maggots of a fly 
called Volucella inanis, as well as the caterpillars of a moth named 
