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APPLE AND ORCHARD ATTACKS. 
cases, as with regard to two kinds of moth looper-caterpillar, the life- 
histories are so similar that they fall under similar means of preven¬ 
tion ; in two other cases, where the moth caterpillar lives in companies, 
one method of lessening amount of attack is applicable (or desirable, 
so far as it can be carried out), in each case ; hut, so far as last 
season’s experience shows, the only remedy which at present is usually 
serviceable when attack is going on, is shaking down the caterpillars, 
or beetles. This, it will be seen, has been largely practised with 
satisfactory results. 
In arranging the following Eeport, where I have had distinct notes 
sent of one kind of insect, and its special method of injury, separately 
from others, I have given these separately, with the addition, so far as 
I was able, of a figure, and likewise an account of the habits of the 
pest. In other cases, where the mischief was caused by several kinds 
of insects, I have given the reports of damage, and placed the accounts 
of the insects, of which samples were sent, under their respective 
names in the following pages. 
The notices of attack were (as might be expected) from localities 
or districts in some of the chief fruit-growing counties, namely, 
Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Salop, and like¬ 
wise Kent and Surrey. 
The following note refers to Apple-blossom weevil:— 
Apple Weevil. Anthonomus pomorum , Curtis. 
Anthonomus pomorum. 
1, Weevil; 2, maggot; 3, chrysalis, magnified and nat. size; 
4, Apple-bud, injured by weevil. 
Attack of Apple-blossom Weevil was one of those which caused 
serious loss to fruit-growers during the past season. On the 21st of 
May specimens of the maggots, well-advanced in growth, were sent 
me from Newlands, near Sittingbourne, Kent, with a note that the 
attack was then very prevalent on Apple-trees in East Kent. Mr. Lake, 
by whom the specimens were sent, mentioned that he was not aware 
