192 HALF HOUES WITH EN^SECTS. [Packard. 



chief it has clone in the orchard, and that it is the cause of 

 the wormy apples in the cellar. So with the average farmer 

 or gardener. He little suspects that the apples falling in a 

 still night from his trees are loosened from their twig by the 

 3'oung of the innocent looking moth which may be seen fly- 

 ing about the house, when the apple trees are in blossom, 

 and again in the middle of August, when the apples are half 

 formed. Many may recall the appearance of the repulsive 

 little whitish caterpillar or "worm," occurring in wormy 

 apples, who are not at all acquainted with the moth. It is 

 rather smaller than the apple leaf roller, with narrower 

 wings, and grajdsh ash-colored. Across the wings pass 

 slightly marked numerous darker transverse lines, with a 

 prominent curved black line, edged with a coppery tint, near 

 an eye-like patch on the inner angle. The wings expand 

 over half an inch. She lays her eggs in the calyx of the 

 blossoms of the apple, just as the petals are falling. The 

 worm hatches in a few days, burrowing into the core. In 

 three weeks the caterpillar becomes full-sized, the apple pre- 

 maturely drops, the worm deserts it, creeps up under the 

 bark of the tree, cocooning and in a few da3^s after a brood 

 of moths appear. They are the parents of the worms which 

 may be found through the winter and early spring under the 

 bark, housed in their cocoons. 



Taking advantage of this habit of cocooning in crevices, 

 the best plan in dealing with these insects is to wind cloths 

 and bands of straw around the trunks. During the last 

 half of summer and the autumn they can be removed every 

 few days and burned, and others put in their place. 



When the fruit is stored in the cellar the maggots of three 

 kinds of flies emulate the example of the caterpillar of the 

 coddling moth, and further despoil the orchardist, and wound 

 the feelings of the lover of good apples. 



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