268 THE APPLE CULTURIST. 



larva could eat, the invader perished, and the apple was in- 

 jured but little. 



Remedies for the Codling-worm Moth. If the millers can 

 be caught, of course no eggs will be deposited from which 

 larvae can be hatched. Hence, let the bottles of sweetened 

 water and vinegar (Fig. 51, p. 117) be employed. A large 

 proportion of these flies may be trapped in bottles and by 

 fires, or by the lamp-trap (Fig. 104). After the larva, &, 

 Fig 10 4. reaches the core of an apple, 



the fruit w iU usually drop from 

 ^ e tree Before it nas ripened. 

 I n a & w days after this, the 

 larva bores out of the apple and 

 winds itself up in a cocoon, c, 

 beneath shreds of bark, as al- 

 ready stated. 



In August or September, or 

 the next spring, these insects 



reappear, in time to deposit their eggs in the calyx of the 

 young fruit. If little birds are numerous among apple- 

 trees, they will devour almost every larva before they can 

 produce a cocoon or find a refuge where they will be safe 

 from birds. These larvae are fat and tender worms, and all 

 kinds of birds devour them with avidity. Hence the ad- 

 vantage of encouraging the propagation of these little song- 

 sters like the yellow-bird, wren, robin, " little chippie," and 

 many others that choose the fruit-orchard for their abode. 

 Where little birds have been exterminated, apples are apt 

 to be wormy. Some pomologists twist a rope of hay or 

 straw, say half as large as a man's wrist, and wind it sev- 

 eral times around the body of an apple-tree, as shown by 

 Fig. 92, p. 24Y. Beneath this band the larvae will take ref- 

 uge and spin their cocoons, c. The band should be removed 

 soon after the cocoons are formed, and the cocoons destroy- 



