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feeding just beneath tlie skin, after tliis it goes direct for tlie core 

 where it feeds iintil full grown [about 25 days]. Then it cuts a 

 passage out. usually through the cheek, but does not come out im- 

 mediately, plugging up the hole with its chips, probal)ly to wait for 

 a quiet dark night to make the exit. It is (|uite certain that it 

 leaves the fruit at night, when it is safe from birds. As a rule the 

 early a])}iles fall with the worm in them, but the later ones do not. 

 After leaving the fruit the worm crawls to the trunk to find some 

 place of concealment. 'J'he loose bark seems its natural hiding place. 

 Here it spins a thin silken cocoon and in from 9 to 15 days ac- 

 cording to the temperatiu'c. the moth issues. The larvae that 

 leave the apples in September do not ])roduce moths until the fol- 

 lowing June. 



The codling moth is a wary insect and is not easily ca})tured. 

 Its larva on the contrary is (piite easily ensnared. The moth seems 

 to shun l)oth sun and artificial light, is seldom if ever found flut- 

 tering round our lami)S as many moths do, so that fires or lamjjs 

 burned in the orchard, Avould be ({uite useless so far as destronng 

 the codling moth is concerned. 



All practical fruit growers agree that the pa})er 1)andages are the 

 simplest, and in fact the only relialjle method of trapping the lar- 

 vae of the codling-moth, and middle of June is the time to prepare for 

 a thorough campaign against this our worst enemy to \)\\) fruit. 



Procure common tough wrapping paper cut into strips six or eight 

 inches wide and long enough to go round the trees with an inch 

 or two to lap, fold this once and pass round the trunk of the tree, 

 the opening downward so as not to fill with water, and fasten with 

 a single tack pressed into the bark with the thumb. Apply thece 

 bandages as soon as the fruit has set, examine every ten days until 

 Se})tember by removing the bands and kill all worms found under 

 or in the fold of the i)ai)er. 



In order to grow nice sound fruit do not neglect to bandage the 

 trees; destroy all fallen fruit; scrape the old loose bark off the trees, 

 for this is the natural hiding i^lace of the codling-moth larvae. 

 This work must be attended to every year, as they cannot be ex- 

 terminated at once, it will take time and perseverance. Do not be 

 discouraged because neighbors neglect their orchards. 



These bands should be put on the trees about the 20th of June 

 and examined every ten days, until all the fruit is gathered. The 

 Imago or perfect moth has been figured and described quite fre- 

 quently, still there are few fruit-growers that have made its ac- 



