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Excerpt from Curculios That Attack the Young Fruits and Shoots of Walnut and Hickory
Occasionally the larvae are found boring in young shoots of butter nut at French Creek, W. Va oviposition evidently taking place in the tips of these shoots before the fruit is large enough to be attacked. On July 2, 1920, in the last-named locality, 60 half-grown butternuts were picked at random from the lower branches of one tree. Of these 60 nuts 48 contained egg punctures of the curculio and 12 were sound. A number of nearly full-grown larvae were also found bor ing in the terminal shoots and leaf petioles. These larvae averaged larger than those in the nuts, indicating, as in numerous other Obsor vations made, that eggs are first laid in the shoots. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
