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PDAl'D 2. 
Fig. 1.—Apples p-.cked on Jinie 8, when they were from five-eighths to three-quarters 
of an inch in diameter, showing the characteristic injury from leaf-roller; figure 2, apples 
picked from same orchard on August 9, when they were about two inches in diame¬ 
ter. Original in Circular 5, Office of State Entomologist. 
can be distisguished from the plum curculio by being smaller and hav¬ 
ing two humps on each wing cover, while the plum curculio has only 
one. The beetles hibernate under grass, or any rubbi'sih about the 
orchard, and appear on the trees about the time the petals fall, and 
begin to feed upon the young apples. The females begin laying eggs 
in the apples when the later are about one-quarter inch in diameter. A 
puncture is made with the beak, the pulp eaten out and the egg de*- 
