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FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
.... , . . _ nf the o- r apes were thus destroyed, and often every bunch on a 
lone:. Whole bunches ot trie gtapeb 1867 a 
they only enabled me to i ^ J ^ ^ were C atawhas, obtained 
the perfect beetle. The grape,. adds “ there are sixteen 
from vineyards at Big Hill, Kentucky, “where, ^ adds, £ ^ ^ rf ^ 
acres in one place entirely ruined \ t p ad grapes infested 
son, Ohio, has manifestly, as is proved by a it3 Nat- 
for the last 3 years by this very same larva, though, in endeav B ^ ^ ^ . g ^ ft 
nral History, he has apparently by a vei y par on leaf-rolling caterpillars of the 
professional state, not a Beetle, but a Moth or 
popnlarty called. * ^m'ries,before 
compelled to carefully look ovei m eij buuc , insec ts that I have found on the 
sending them to the table; and out of the 18 or : »]m wt ^ ^ nurabers would 
grape, this one gi V ^^ e ^^ ^^Finally, my esteemed correspondent, Mr. Joseph 
render our grape crop worthless. xi >, u 0 r hun dreds of 
Wood, of Marietta, Ohio, informed me as ^ ^ afterwards found the larva eating 
tured grapes, two ot wine * V we those of some species or other of 
examining these larva?, I was sa is c , f those of either of the two 
Snout-beetle, but that they were ^* er *_ known to infest the plum, with 
species — the Plum Curculio an , ., I therefore wrote at once 
which Mr. Wood had in the first instance confounded t. ^ infegted grapes . 
to him, stating the above facts, anc Z® Qrder and by this means I have been 
These he obligingly forwardec o me m , Grane Curculio from the larva to 
enabled to trace the progress of our newly-discov ied obser- 
tbe perfect beetie state. In tbe J partly from 
vations, partly f>om the “ * t0 the who i c of this pernicious group of insects — 
"o^" Cn up asfull a bistory as possibie of this seemingly insigniii- 
cant, but really very important. foe of thelater, according to the latitude, 
Late in June, or early in Ju y, 1 as if prematurely ripening. 
berries may be observed coloring very slig 5 up0 “ jn ’the middle of the colored 
Not long afterwards a dark circular dot may be notreed m the ™ ^ ^ 
spot, as if a common pm ^d been tlnus ^ ^ puncture and the slight discolors- 
does not rot or decay, but, . p,- ag external appearance goes, 
tion, remains to the last perfectly sound and u J£ hed from the 
lienee the work of the Grape Curcrdm may be ™ ^ed, not by any insect, bn, 
so-called and very appropriately named K , infestec 
by a microscopically minute fungus Awards the end of July, * one ^ ^ 
berries is cut into, the larva and of Moths_* 
- that ta t0 S a y , so.,d, h ar d 
Respecting these two, see below, Chapters XI. ami XII. 
