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THE APPLE-WOKM. 

 {Carpocapsa pomonella, Linnseus.) 



(Order Lepidopteka. Family ToRTRiciDiE. 



[Living in apples, crab-apples, and various other fruits ; a naked 

 whitish caterpillar or worm whose body is provided with sixteen 



legs.j 



The Apple-worm is one of the most widely distributed and best 

 known of all the insects which infest the apple. It is also one of 

 the worst enemies with which the orchardist has to contend. De- 

 stroying as it does the very object for which the apple-tree is grown, 

 its fruit, it is far more injurious than those insects which feed upon 

 the leaves ; for, when defoliated, the tree possesses the power of 

 putting forth another crop of leaves the same season ; but when its 

 fruit is destroyed, it never bears a second crop the same year. 



About the middle of May the parent of the Apple-worm, commonly 

 called the Codling Moth, deposits her eggs singly upon the young 

 fruit, usually placing them upon the blossom end, but sometimes 

 also upon the opposite end, and rarely upon the sides. As soon as 

 hatched the young worm burrows into the fruit, casting its excre- 

 ments and other refuse matter out of the hole by which it entered 

 the fruit ; these castings become collected around the mouth of the 

 burrow, and thus plainly indicate the presence of the worm in the 

 infested fruit. The worm reaches its full growth in about one month, 

 and then measures about one-half of an inch in length. Its body 

 is provided with sixteen legs, is of a pale yellowish-white color, 

 usually tinged on the back with pale pink, and marked with a num- 

 ber of pale brownish raised spots ; the head and cervical shield are 

 grayish or reddish-brown. Several other larvae, as worms, also live 

 in apples, but these may readily be distinguished from the true 

 Apple-worm by being entirely destitute of legs, the Apple-worm, as 

 stated above, being provided with sixteen. 



These legless worms are usually the larvae or young of various 

 kinds of weevils, or snout beetles as they are sometimes called, on 



