The New York Weevil
Prof. Cook, Lansing, Mich. I set ont 350 apple trees on new giound this spring, a part of the ground was plowed last fall and the balance never was plowed. A bug commenced gnaw.ng off the buds and"it „eu. " ow as .f they would destroy every tree.-. Can you teil: me vvhat they are and how to get nd of them. I will send a bottle I with some of them in it, also a stem upon which they havo worked. Very truly, . W. w. Nichols. AKH Arbor. Mich., June 5 1879 o. wüovüs, and thus relatives of the - .„-..„, „uo J.„uw IorlL weevil: Itllv I cerus Curcnlionoides, Herbst. The weev.1 Ú 6-8 of an inch long to the end of its out. The color i8gray lDed w th vvlnte, and dotted with black spots which are raised a little above the general surtce. The autennae are straight r, u generi0 llame Ithvcerus' tra.ght horn. The gray color" ariseS8' frora short hairs of that hue. The larvas are borers and work in the oak and hickory. w;nhf m ïlsect? Iike the plum c"rculi will fold 1 their leg8 and fall when jarred. Henee they are to be collected and kilI led, as we would gather and destroy the curcuho by the jarring process. „ 1S Pssib'e ttat synnging with Paris gree" l)y ad of the fountain pump would destroy tho weevils, if so it would' ' be a cheap method. It is quite posaible that enough of the poison would be eatcn to cause death. This is ft „„„ , enemy in our state, though by no means „i our country, as it was named by Herbst over ]()0 year8 ago, Specimens bemg taken in the eastern states Forster named it ithycerus noveboracensis, or New Nork wwO, l,e havinff received it named ' aad BaosiaS II
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