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eight to ten inches from its birth-place. I ious 



that this borer will kill both old and young living 



!:, m i di] lii lati summer and autumn the bark should be i 

 fully examined for the gashes made bv the beetle in la) ing 

 and the small grubs cut out of the bark or sap wood Voung 

 Bhould also be scraped and soaped, and the trunk at base be Bur- 

 rounded by tarred paper to prevent the female beetle laying her 

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The Coddling-moth {Carpocapsa pomonella Linn.). — 1'- • 

 sides the canker-worm and tent-caterpillar, which are locally 

 destructive, the universal pest of the apple-orchard through- 

 out the United States, from Maine to California, is this in- 

 sect. In the Northern States the ninth flies in May, laying 

 in the calyx after the blossoms tall, and in a few 



Ki.j 858 Coddlinff-moth. a, worm-eaten aj>i>U-: b, point at wl 

 laid, and ;ii « lii«'h the young worm entered : </. pupa; < . fu 

 its head; /. g, moth; (, cocoon. After Riley. 



days the larva hatches, burrowing into the core, when in 

 three weeks it becomes of full size, being n | ile whitish 

 caterpillar nearly an inch in length. As the result <>f its 

 work, the apple prematurely falls to the groun 1. when the 

 worm deserts it. It then usually creep- up the trunk of 



