Vegetable Ivory with larvae of Caryoborus - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 36111 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Phytelephas macrocarpa | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Vegetable Ivory with larvae of Caryoborus | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Vegetable Ivory with larvae of Caryoborus | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Vegetable Ivory with larvae of CaryoborusUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Machlachan R | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1876 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Seed of vegetable ivory attacked by larvae of Caryoborus. 39, Limes Grove, Lewisham S.E. 22 May 1876. My Dear Dyer, The little sack arrived on Saturday night - your letter this morning. When on Saturday night I opened the tin box and saw on, ly some excessively lively minature 'cockroaches' (Blatta or other genus, sp?), I really don't think a practical joke was being played, for they couldn't possibly have anything to do with the holes in the palm nuts. I shut the box as quick as possible,I d, idn't open it again till this morning, when I see (in addition to the cockroaches) the real dep??? in the form of a beetle whose larvae does the mischief. I will find out what it is and communicate further. No doubt one of the Brachidae ?? (allied to our, pea-weevil). A similar case has just come before my notice in which one of the same family of beetles is doing bad damage to 'vegetable ivory' nuts. Of course you will understand that the eggs are laid in the nuts when these latter are in a soft and minat, ure condition. The young cockroaches are only fortuitous or they may possibly be feeding on the general debris, they are innocent of the ?? charge. | ||||