Several kinds of nuts are attacked and injured by long-beaked snout beetles or weevils belonging to the genus _Balaninus_, the chestnut probably being the most seriously damaged. All of them feed inside the nuts or fruit during the larval stage, and the larvae are without legs. As both the methods of attack and the life history are similar for all species, they will be considered here in a group. For the sake of distinguishing them, however, their names are mentioned. Larger Chestnut weevil, _Balaninus proboscideus_ Fabr. Lesser Chestnut weevil, _B. rectus_ Say. Hickory nut or Pecan weevil, _B. caryae_ Horn. Hazelnut weevil, _B. obtusus_ Blanch. Common acorn weevil, _B. quercus_ Horn. Mottled acorn weevil, _B. nasicus_ Say. Straight-snouted acorn weevil, _B. orthorhynchus_ Chittn. Sooty acorn weevil, _B. baculi_ Chittn. Confused acorn weevil, _B. confusor_ Ham. Spotted acorn weevil, _B. pardalus_ Chittn. All of these weevils pass the winter in the ground in the larval stage, transforming to pupae about three weeks before the adult beetles emerge, which varies from June, when they are usually few and scattering, to September, when they have become abundant. Thus there is a single brood each year, and the larval period lasts from three to five weeks in the nuts and some ten months in the ground, from two to eight inches below the surface. The control of these weevils is difficult, and ordinary methods such as spraying are not effective. In fact little can be done other than destroying the weeviled nuts, which may be fed to hogs. When first gathered the nuts may be fumigated with carbon disulphide. About two fluid ounces of the liquid should be used for each bushel of nuts and placed in a shallow dish on top of the nuts, which should be enclosed in a tight box or barrel. The period of fumigation should be from 12 to 24 hours. Where nuts are not to be used for seed they may be thrown into boiling water for about five minutes--just long enough to kill the weevils. The nuts are then dried and sold. Most of the weeviled nuts will rise to the surface and may be discarded, but this test is not absolute and cannot be depended on to distinguish the sound from the weeviled nuts. HICKORY BARK BEETLE OR BARK BORER. _Scolytus quadrispinosus_ Say. Outbreaks of the hickory bark borer occur periodically throughout the northeastern United States, and during the past five years many hickory trees in this vicinity have died.