26 DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES. 



BAND RECORDS OF 1910. 



The band-record experiments form a very important part in the 

 study of the life history of the codling moth, and constitute at present 

 the only safe test of the development of the insect under natural 



Fig. 8.— Cage used in determining feeding period of codling-moth larvae. (Original.) 



conditions. When carefully carried out these experiments furnish 

 indispensable data on the relative abundance of the first and second 

 broods of larvae, time of emergence of moths, parasitism, hibernation, 

 etc. (see Table XXXI), and yield in addition an abundance of 

 material for laboratory rearing experiments. 



