681 State Board of Agricui^ture, &c. 



advantage. There is, however, a little parasite, Pteromalus 

 piqjatnim, Linn., which deposits its eggs in the pupa of the 

 cabbage butterfly, and the young find food enough to 

 develop forty or fifty from one pupa, to again feed upon this 

 obnoxious insect. This parasite is not found in all places 

 where the cabbage worm is, as they are not so rapid travel- 

 ers, but, doubtless, soon they will be held in check by this 

 little friend of mankind. 



The Codling Moth or Apple Worm. 

 Carpnca2:)sa j)Oinonella, Linn. 



This is another imported insect, but is, doubtless, found 

 everywhere where apples are raised, and so has become 

 domesticated in its American home. About the first of July, 

 in this State, tlie night flying moth comes from his silken 

 cocoon, which was hid under some bit of bark, or sliver on 

 the fence near by. After pairing the male dies, but the 

 female may be seen in the dusk of night flitting around the 

 apple tree, laying her eggs in the blossom end of the little 

 apples. 



In about a week the egg hatches, and the worm eats his 

 way into the apple, where it lives for about a month, when 

 it bores its w^ay out through the side, and escapes to some 

 sheltered place, where it builds its cocoon, as stated ; but this 

 time coming out in about twelve days, laying eggs as before, 

 this brood giving ns the wormy apples in the fall. What 

 worms survive build cocoons as before, to come out 

 perfected the next summer. The first brood is very small, 

 but the second is fifty to one of the first, or even more. 



Our protection against this insect is very difficult, and so 

 most people do nothing. Putting wisps of straw round the 



