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uoliceable a cylindrical process, acting as a proleg. The colour varies 

 somewhat ; dull, almost grey specimens may sometimes be seen. As 

 soon as they are full grown they leave the fruit and crawl to some 

 shelter, such as crevices in the poles, under the rough rind of the 

 canes, or may enter the earth around the stocks. There they pupate 

 and remain all the winter, the beetles hatching out in the spring 

 about the time the blossom-buds are bursting. 



Wild blackberries are also attacked by this beetle, and from this 

 source gardens may become invaded, as the beetles are very active on 

 the wing in warm bright weather. 



Prevention and Eemedies. 



When we notice numbers of beetles about on the raspberries in 

 May and early in June we should go over the l)eds holding a tarred 

 sack or boards on each side of the rows and jar the beetles off on to 

 them. This should be done <m dull days, as the beetles are very 

 active in bright sunshine and would fly away some distance. 



All prunings and debris should be Iturnt in the winter, as this 

 will destroy numbers of the pupa\ The old bearing wood should 

 always be burnt. 



In the early spring paraffin and ashes may be hoed into the ground 

 near the stocks. 



Prevalence of Codling Moth in Foreign and 

 Colonial Apples. 



Numerous larvte sent from imported apples proved to be those 

 of the Codling Moth. 



The danger of the constant and great importation of this i)cst 

 into Great Britain in American fruit (both from the United States and 

 Canada) is in the parcels of fruit being sent out into our villages. 

 Cases have been recently investigated where Portuguese apples have 

 been brought to Kent villages teeming with this pest ; we also get, 

 especially as during the present year, when there is no local fruit, 

 great numbers of American apples in the country. In the country 

 the moths when they hatch out can easily get into gardens and in 

 many cases orchards close by. That they do so in very large 

 numbers is beyond doubt, and as long as this is allowed it is quite 

 useless to advise any fruit grower to adopt any preventives in his 

 orchard, as it is merely waste of time.* 



* In Natal all cases of Portuguese and other apples infested with tliis pest are 

 destroyed; during l'J03 large quantities were burnt (/'tVZe "The Natal Journal Agri. 

 and Mines," Dec. 1903). 



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