 | 1870 - 404 pages
...her snout, makes a small cut just through the skin of the fruit. She then runs the snout slantingly under the skin, to the depth of one-sixteenth of an...is large enough to receive the egg it is to retain. Then she turns around and drops an egg into the month of the cavity, and after this is accomplished,... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1869 - 786 pages
...fruit, and then runs the snout under the skin to the depth of l-16th of an inch, and moves it i>ack and forth until the cavity is large enough to receive the egg it is to retain. She next changes her position, and drops an egg into the mouth of the cut; then,, veering round again,... | |
 | Sereno Edwards Todd - Apples - 1871 - 348 pages
...her snout makes a small cut just through the skin of the fruit. She then runs the snout slantingly under the skin, to the depth of one-sixteenth of an...is large enough to receive the egg it is to retain. Then she turns around and drops an egg into the mouth of the cavity. After this is accomplished, she... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1872 - 216 pages
...perhaps until the middle of July. The operation of laying the egg is thus clearly described by RILEY : " Having taken a strong hold on the fruit, she makes...is large enough to receive the egg it is to retain. Slfe then reverses her position and drops an egg into the mouth of the cut, then turning around again... | |
 | Mary Treat - Gardening - 1882 - 298 pages
...her snout, makes a small cut just through the skin of the fruit. She then runs the snout slantingly under the skin, to the depth of one-sixteenth of an...is large enough to receive the egg it is to retain. Then she turns around and drops an egg into the mouth of the cavity, and after this is accomplished,... | |
 | U.S. department of agriculture Commissioner's OFfice - 1889 - 842 pages
...the jaws, which are at the end of her snout, just through the skin of the fruit, and then runs the snout under the skin to the depth of one-sixteenth...large enough to receive the egg it is to retain. She next changes her position, and drops an egg into the mouth of the cut ; then, veering round again,... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1889 - 858 pages
...the jaws, which are at the end of her snout, just through the skin of the fruit, and then runs the snout under the skin to the depth of one-sixteenth...large enough to receive the egg it is to retain. She next changes her position, and drops an egg into the mouth of the cut ; then, veering round again,... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1889 - 852 pages
...the jaws, which are at the end of her snout, just through the skin of the fruit, and then runs the snout under the skin to the depth of one-sixteenth...moves it back and forth until the cavity is large enovigh to receive the egg it is to retain. She next changes her position, and drops nn egg into the... | |
 | Agriculture - 1889 - 860 pages
...through the skin of the fruit, and then runs the snout under the skin to the depth of one-sixteenth of au inch, and moves it back and forth until the cavity...large enough to receive the egg it is to retain. She next changes her position, and drops an egg into the mouth of the cut ; then, veering round again,... | |
 | California. State Board of Horticulture - Fruit-culture - 1890
...the fruit, and then runs the snout under the skin to the depth of one sixteenth of an inch, and move? it back and forth until the cavity is large enough to receive the egg it is to retain. She nc^t changes her position, and drops an egg into the mouth of the cut' then, veering rouml again, she... | |
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Having taken a strong hold on the fruit the female makes a minute cut with the jaws, which are at the end of her snout, just through the skin of the fruit, and then runs the snout under the skin to the depth of one-sixteenth of an inch, and moves it back... 
