Note 334 — LETTER VI.
Reading edition
On the Apple and Pear, 158. The beetle Mr. Knight alludes to is probably the Polydrosus oblongus, which answers his description, and is common on pear-trees.—In Holland, it is stated in a little tract on this subject (Verhandeling ten bewijze &c. door F. H. van Berck. 8vo. Haarlem 1807), that the great destroyer of the blossoms of their apple- and pear-trees is the larva of another weevil, Anthonomus Pomorum, which from the name and Gyllenhal's addition to the habitat given by Linné—"quas destruit"—should seem to be injurious in Sweden also.