THE CODLING-MOTH. 



Carpocapsa pomonella Linn. 



Order Lepidoptera ; family GRAPHOLiTHiDiE, 



Almost every lover of fruits has seen a " wormy apple," and most 

 people understand that, as our little two-year-old daughter puts it, "a 

 naughty old worm did it." The time is soon coming when these little 

 observers of nature will not be content with this meagre information, 

 and fathers and mothers will be called upon to tell more of the story 

 of the life of this " naughty old worm." How few of us know this 

 story ! 



This apple-worm is one of the most serious drawbacks to the profit- 

 able growing of apples by the average fruit-grower. From one- 

 fourth to one-half of the apple crop in the United States is usually 

 ruined annually by this insect ; it thus exacts millions of dollars of 

 tribute yearly from our fruit-growers. As many of our more progres- 

 sive orchardists have already learned, the number of wormy fruits can 

 be largely reduced by the intelligent application of modern methods. 

 In spite of the fact that this insect usually causes a greater monetary 

 loss to the apple-grower than all the other insect foes of the apple 

 combined, yet it can be often more easily controlled than the apple- 

 borer, the canker-worms, and several other orchard pests. We wish 

 that every apple-grower could be induced to read, from Nature's 

 book if possible, the life-story of this insect, and then put to practical 

 use the knowledge thus obtained. For we are hopeful that then it 

 would not be necessary to look over a bushel of apples in our city 

 markets to find half a dozen that were not wormy ; and besides the 

 apple-grower would then be prepared to introduce a very interesting 

 bit of nature-study into the home whenever the little ones chanced 

 upon the work of the " naughty old worm." It has come to be a 

 well-established fact in our experience among fruit-growers, that those 

 who combat their insect foes with the least trouble, the most success- 



