Excerpt from Insects Injurious to Forest and Shade Trees The larva obtains its food from the small vegetable radicals that everywhere per vade the fertile earth. It takes its food from the surface of' these roots, consisting of the moist exudation (like animal-perspiration), for which purpose its rostrum or snout is provided with three exceedingly delicate capillaries or hairs, which project from the tube of the snout and sweep over the surface, gathering up the minute drops of moisture. This is its only food. The mode of taking it can be seen by a good glass. Prairie Farmer, December, 1851. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.