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ness; the hole is, however, very easily seen, from its 

 always having adhering to it on the outside an accumula- 

 tion of little grains which have heen thrust through. 

 Having completed this work the grub returns towards the 

 centre of the apple, where he feeds at his ease. When 

 within a few days of being full-fed, he for the first time 

 enters the core through a round hole gnawed in the hard, 

 horny substance which always separates the pips from the 

 pulp of the fruit, and the destroyer now finds himself in 

 that spacious chamber which codlings in particular always 

 have in their centre. From this time he eats only the pips, 

 never again tasting the more common pulp which hitherto 

 had satisfied his unsophisticated palate : now nothing less 

 than the highly-flavoured, aromatic kernels will suit his 

 tooth, and on these for a few days he feasts in luxury. 



Somehow or other, the pips of an apple are connected 

 with its growth, as the heart of an animal with its life ; 

 injure the heart, an animal dies : injure the pips, an apple 

 falls. Whether the fall of his house gives the tenant 

 warning to quit, I cannot say, but quit he does, and that 

 almost immediately ; he leaves the core, crawls along his 

 breathing and clearing-out gallery, the mouth of which, 

 before nearly closed, he now gnaws into a smooth, round 

 hole, which will permit him free passage without hurting 

 his fat, soft, round body ; then out he comes, and for the 

 first time in his life finds himself in the open air. He now 

 wanders about on the ground till he finds the stem of a 

 tree : up this he climbs, and hides himself in some nice 

 little crack in the bark.* I should remark, that the fall of 



* A talented entomologist assures me that the species pomonanus frequently 

 buries itself in the ground, after the manner of the larger species of nocturnal 

 Lepidoptera. E. .V. 



