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Quidam inueniuntur in magnitudine pisi, vel etiam piso minores: alii ad quantitatem fabæ, sed nullus maior auellana, vel nuce.
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Quidam inueniuntur in magnitudine pisi, vel etiam piso minores: alii ad quantitatem fab�, sed nullus maior auellana, vel nuce.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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[Illustration: BEAN APHIS = Aphis rumicis = (pupa and female)] = = The Pea Siphon-Aphis = = (= Siphonophora pisi =, Kalt).
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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Wanting the tamarisk, we miss our little _Curculio_, who thrives upon its leaves; and the _Bruchus pisi_, for want of peas, is frequently caught in the bean-tops.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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The industry of the larvæ reminds us at every point what we have learned from the _Bruchus pisi_.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Weevils -- _Bruchus pisi_ and _Bruchus lenti_ -- are classed as Bruchidæ, in the series of Phytophaga.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The _Bruchus pisi_, a solitary hermit, consumes only so much of the pea as will leave a cell for the nymph; the rest remains intact, so that the pea may be sown, or it will even serve as food, if we can overcome our repugnance.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Unlike the _Bruchus pisi_, the female of the haricot-weevil refuses to trust her family to beans that are not hardened by age and desiccation; she refused to settle on my bean-patch because the food she required was not to be found there.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The development of the plant is at the requisite stage, if I may go by what the _Bruchus pisi_ has already taught me; the flowers are abundant, and the pods are equally so; still green, and of all sizes.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Quidam inueniuntur in magnitudine pisi, vel etiam piso minores: alii ad quantitatem fabæ, sed nullus maior auellana, vel nuce.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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