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search for the worm with a knife. If the borer is too deep 

 to be reached with a knife, take a piece of flexible •wire, and 

 run into the hole, and destroy the borer : this is the su: 

 kill him. 

 The eodlin-moth is also a night insect. The female de- 

 - - g ggs singly in the blossoms, or in the blossom- 

 end of the fruit : through this opening the worm, as soon as 

 hatched, mak : - way to the centre, and eats the seed and 

 pulp. In warm weather the worm attains its growth in 

 about three weeks, when it leaves the apple, and seer 

 itself under anv thing it can find for shelter. A _ . : manv 

 can be caught by placing chips about the trunks of the trc 

 and burning the chips every few days. The female flies at 

 night : and large numbers can be destroved bv lighting lamps 

 in an orchard at night during the month of June. All fruit 

 that drops prematurely should be gathered up immediately. 

 and led at once, as the worm leaves the fruit as soon as it 

 drops. If hogs are allowed to run in an orchard, they will 

 destrov a great manv insects. The tall web-worms are verv 

 destructive to the foliage of apple-trees during the summer 

 and early fall. Th in colonies, and envelop the le; 9 



and branches, on which they feed, with a web. The moth is 

 milk-white. TL ggs, from two to three hundred in num 

 are deposited on the under-side of the leaves, near the end of 

 a branch : tl. rare soon hatch, and the larva? feed on the 

 tender portions of the leaves. These worms are most numer- 

 jus in S - .tember. The remedy is hand-picking, and crush- 

 ing them beneath the foe: 



The larva of the tent caterpillar is so destructive to the 

 foliage of apple-trees that it is :ren called the apple-tree 

 worm. The moth selects a terminal shoot that has com- 

 pleted its growth, and depo-: be its __ .from : to three 

 hundred in number, around the limb, in the form of a sheath, 

 and covers them with a kind of varnish that protects them 

 from the wet Very early in the spring these _ - _atch. and 

 the caterpillar spin- rb. and begins its work of destruc- 



tion. Tnes Terpillars may be destroyed by either picking 

 off the . _ - :n the fall, or bv cutting awav the twig on which 

 the nest is seen in spring, and crushing or burning the worms. 

 The handmaid moth is a brown, hairy, thick-bodied moth, 

 about an inch acre-- - wings. It flies at night, and is very 



