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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 308

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 308 — and how lovinglyit gives home comforts. It was interesting to see how warlike thechestnut-bur is in its preparation for its enemies.Nature often thus uses all possible power anddevice in an almost human-like manner to accom-plish some object. But nature is nt unfair. She aids her… … THE LONG TRUNK. OF THE CHESTNUT WEEVIL. nut weevil in the attack. All of us in eatingchestnuts have learned, unpleasantly, of the larvalform of the chestnut weevil within the chestnut.The parent of this chestnut worm has a long,trunk-like extension of its head with which toreach down past the…

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