266 THE APPLE CULTURIST. 



gusting excrement. But probably not one fruit-grower out 

 of a hundred has ever seen the little moth which is pro- 

 duced from this worm, and which, in its tura, gives birth to 

 a fresh generation of such worms. This moth is variously 

 known as the Apple-worm Moth, or the Codling-worm Moth. 

 The Apple-worm Moth makes its first appearance about the 

 first of May to the forepart of June, and a little earlier or 

 later, according to the season or the latitude. Usually, at 

 the time it appears, the young apples are already set, and 

 are beginning to be about as large as a hazel-nut. After 

 coupling in the usual manner, the female moth then pro- 

 ceeds to deposit a single egg in the blossom end of the fruit, 

 flying from fruit to fruit, until her stock of eggs (amount- 

 ing to two or three hundred) is exhausted. Soon after ac- 

 complishing this process, she dies of old age and exhaus- 

 tion. In a very few cases, the egg is deposited in the cavi- 

 ty at the stem-end of the fruit, or simply glued on to the 

 smooth surface of the fruit. In a short time afterwards, 

 the egg, no matter where it is located, hatches out, and the 

 young larva forthwith proceeds to burrow into the flesh of 

 the apple, feeding as he goes, making his head-quarters in 

 the core. In three or four weeks' time, it is full-grown ; 

 and shortly before this, the infested apple generally falls to 

 the ground. The larva then crawls out of the fruit through 

 a large hole in the cheek, I, which it has bored several days 

 beforehand for that express purpose, and usually makes for 

 the trunk of the tree, up which it climbs, and spins around 

 itself a silken cocoon of a dirty white color, in any con- 

 venient crevice it can find, the crotch of a tree being a fa- 

 vorite spot. Here it transforms into the pupa state, and 

 towards the latter part of July or the forepart of August 

 it bursts forth in the moth state. It also appears in the 

 former part of the growing season, and it has been noticed 

 that a larva will occasionally spin its cocoon on the under- 



