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 491
.) The injury thus done to the essential partsof the flower prevents the petals from expanding; and these re-main unconsumed, serving as a sort of dome over the enclosedinsect(j^^-. 95.6), which now throws offa thin pellicle, and becomesan inactive pupa, nearly resembling the beetle in its shape,… … 468 Insects most injurious to Cultivators: — size; and e, magnified). The pupa state is but of short duration, asit requires but four or five weeks from the period of laying the egg,for the insect to arrive at perfection. As soon as the latterperiod is arrived (in the early part of June), the…
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