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Title: A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture French, Charles, 1843- Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insect pests Insects
Publisher: Melbourne, R. S. Brain, Government Printer
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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this branch of the Victorian Depart-ment of Agriculture, by sending from time to time theresults of their experiences, the receipt of which willgreatly add to a more general knowledge of the subject,and which cannot fail to be of mutual advantage. Isincerely trust that growers will continue to accord metheir support and active assistance, for the growers andthe entomologist must go hand in hand to obtain thebest results, as the grower is in the field daily and cantell how things are going on, and, as has been said by adistinguished economic entomologist, he is an assistantthe entomologist cannot well do without. C 2 20 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA: PLATE XVII.The Plum Curculio (Conoteachelus nenuphar. Herbst). 1. Branch of plum tree, showing fruit and weevils, also where fruit is entered. Natural size. 2. Plum fruit, showing larva inside. Natural size. (After Riley.) 3. Larva. Magnified. (After Riley.) 4. Pupa. Magnified. (After Riley.) 5. Perfect insect. Magnified. (After Riley.)
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■ ■ ■ Plate XVI1. THE PLUM CUECULIO. 21 CHAPTER XXIII. THE PLUM CURCULIO. ( Conotrachelus nenuphar. Herbst.)Order : Coleoptera. Family : Curculionidce. The Plum Curculio, which belongs to the great familyof the so-called Weevils, amongst which is Leptops, thatwell-known destroyer of apple and other trees in Victoria,also many others too numerous to mention here. There is considerable doubt as to whether we havethis pest here or not, but years ago it will be rememberedthat one of our best known pioneer amateurs, Mr. D.Carson, of Kew, submitted specimens of an insect whichhe found to be attacking his plums, and which if notreally identical with this species certainly resembles it inits more important economy. In those days the study ofeconomic entomology in Australia was, for any practicalpurposes, we may safely say little known or but imper-fectly understood ; so we are in the dark as to the realculprit then attacking the plums at Kew. As we may,however, at no distant date have t

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