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attacked tlio seed-bag, or core of the fruit. I visited the 

 orchard, at his request, but could not fathom the mystery. A 

 few weeks afterward Mr. Saul wrote me that he had detected 

 the thief. That the larvae were taken from the fruit hy ants. 

 I wrote liim to write a letter on the discovery, and I would 

 have it published ; but the letter was not written before his 

 sudden illness and death, which took place a short time after- 

 ward. In 1882, in company with Mr. C. W. Reed, of Wash- 

 ington, Yolo County, I witnessed the ants taking the larvae of 

 the codlin moth from pears ; also carrying away larvte placed 

 on leaves. It is generally understood that the larvte of the 

 codlin moth generally leaves the apple by eating a burrow in 

 a different direction from the one by which it had entered the 

 fruit. In noticing the absence of the larva^ without finding 

 the burrow for its escape, was what caused the investigation 

 by Mr. Saul. Since that time I have detected the presence of 

 the apple curculio, which may account for some such holes in 

 apples, since the curculio does not attack the seed. 



