The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 490
s (</). Theeffect of this is soon per-ceived in the faded rustybrown colour and witheredappearance of thebud; and itscause is the presence, in theinterior, of an insect in diflfer-ent states of maturity. In thebright sunny days of Marchand April, asmall brown beetle{fig. 95.a; and fig. 96. c,… … Apple Insects. i67 ihe male on the stems of the tree) deposits an egg, having first(according to observations too precise to doubt the fact) bored ahole for its reception in the heart of the bud with her rostrum, atthe extremity of which the parts of the mouth are placed. Theoperation of boring the…
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