552 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD 



The Codling Moth * 



The common apple worm, the larva of the codling moth, is 

 probably the best known and most generally destructive of all 

 the apple insects. It is an old European insect and has been 



FIG. 487. The codling moth (Cydia pomonella Linn.) : a, egg greatly enlarged; 

 6, young larva hatching from egg; c, larva in winter cocoon on inside of a 

 bit of bark; d, pupa original; e, moth after Slingerland all much 

 enlarged. 



distributed to almost all parts of the world where apples are 

 grown. The "wormy" apple is so well known that the work 

 of the larva needs no description, but the aggregate loss which 

 it occasions is not always appreciated, as most of the injured 

 fruit drops and no account is kept of the windfalls, and if the picked 



* Cydia pomonella Linn. Family Tortricidce. See A. L. Quaintance. 

 Yearbook U. S. Dept. Agr , 1907, p. 435; E. L Jenne, Bulletin 80, Part I, 

 Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agr.; C. B. Simpson, Bulletin 41, n. s., 

 Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr. ; E. D. Sanderson, Bulletin 143, N. H. Agr. Exp. 

 Sta ; and bulletins of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations. Laspeyresia 

 is now said to be the correct generic name, both it and Carpocapsa taking 

 precedence over Cydia. However, as things now stand any one of the three 

 names may be used. 



