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near the fore part of the body. No one unacquainted with its 

 history would associate it with the trim and beautiful lady bird,, 

 "When the larvae have reached their full development they attach 

 themselves firmly, by the tail, to the edge of a leaf near the place 

 where their life has been spent in devouring insect life, and pass 

 into the pupa state, and in a short time emerge in the beetle form. 

 The latter hibernates, comes out early in the spring, lives upon the 

 eggs and larvae of other insects, and lays its eggs in clusters on the 

 leaves and branches of plants and trees which are infested with 

 plant lice, so that on hatching out the young grubs will find their 

 prey within their reach. In both stages of its existence it is a 

 voracious feeder, and each individual life is # maintained at the ex- 

 pense of hundreds of others. In Europe, where their value is best 

 known, they have a market price, and are often bought to colonize 

 gardens and fields infested with destructive insects, to aid in their 

 extermination. By all means, spare their lives, favor their propaga- 

 tion, and aid them in their work. 



The Codling Moth. 



From a Lecture before the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture: By Dr. Jabez Fisher. 



This is one of the most important insects that we have to deal 

 with, and one of the greatest curses — scarcely mitigated at all as 

 the curculio is — that the fruit grower has to contend with. In the 

 odd year our fruit is nearly all affected by the codling moth. In a 

 year like this we are under more favorable circumstances, because 

 last year we only grew a small crop of fruit, and, of course, we 

 raised a small crop of codling moths. This year we obtained an 

 enormous crop of fruit, and we got ahead of them. There was not 

 codling moths enough to go round; hence, the large amount of 

 smooth, clean apples, that we have raised. Many people have told 

 me that they do not see one codling moth; that is, there were so 

 many perfect apples, the beauty of which took up so much of 

 their attention, that they did not realize there was anything else. 

 But the codling moth has appeared this year, and you will find 

 that he has had his share of the apples. At least one apiece. It 

 is very seldom, indeed, that this insect will lay two eggs in one apple, 

 almost never, if there are apples enough to go around; but where 

 there are not, I have known six eggs to be be laid in on 3 apple. 

 The codling moth is a very obscure insect. It is a thing that you 



