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apple tree, causing them to wilt and die, passing from one bud to 
another, and, when satisfied, concealing itself under a leaf, until 
prompted by hunger, it crawls forth to take another repast, are 
very interesting, and will not fail to attract! the notice of the fruit 
culturist. When these insects are present in numbers upon a 
tree, perhaps the best mode to get rid of them will be to spread 
sheets under the tree, and then shake the tree, or beat upon it 
with a pole. The insects, thus disturbed, will drop upon the 
sheets, and may be gathered up and killed by throwing them 
into a kettle of boiling water. They may then, be fed to the 
hens. 
Should a favorable season, or any other cause, lead to its be¬ 
coming greatly multiplied at any time, it is easy to perceive that 
this weevil would be a great pest in our orchards. And that it 
will become thus multiplied, now and then, in particular dis¬ 
tricts, I do not doubt, history will show—this being the case 
with nearly all of our injurious insects. Commonly, their num¬ 
bers are so few, that no notice is taken of their depredations. 
But, at times, they become so excessively'numerous, as to commit 
great havoc and prove themselves a terrible scourge. An instance 
of this has recently been communicated to me. The common 
May beetle of our country, Phyllophaga quercina , as it is named 
in Dr. Harris’s Treatise oii Injurious Insects, (a work by the by, 
which should be in the hands of every farmer, gardener and 
fruit grower, now that a new edition has rendered it attainable 
to all,) is seldom noticed as being a depredator at least in this 
section of the State. Milo Ingalsbe, Esq., President of our coun¬ 
ty Agricultural Society, informs me that upon his place at South 
Hartford, he has about seventy plum trees, which were splendid¬ 
ly in bloom on the 15th of May last, together with a number of 
cherry trees of several of the improved varieties. In the course 
of two nights afterwards, however, this May beetle suddenly 
hatched out in such astonishing numbers as to wholly strip these 
trees ot their leaves, buds and blossoms, leaving many of them as 
naked as in mid-winter, and destroying all hopes of any fruit the 
present year. 
