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The Codling-moth, Carpocapsa pomonella (Car-po-cap'sa 

 pom-o-nel'la). — This is the best-known and probably the 

 most important insect enemy of the fruit-grower. The 

 larva is the worm found feeding near the core of wormy 

 apples. The adult (Fig. 288) is a beautiful little creature 

 with finely mottled pale gray or rosy fore 

 wings. There is a large brownish spot near 

 the end of the fore wing, and upon this spot 

 irregular, golden bands. The moth issues 

 from the pupa state in late spring and lays F l^fpoZon"JuT 

 its eggs singly on the surface of the fruit or 

 on adjacent leaves. As soon as the larva hatches it bur- 

 rows into the apple and eats its way to the core, usually 

 causing the fruit to fall prematurely. When full grown 

 the larva burrows out through the side of the fruit, and 

 undergoes its transformations within a cocoon, under the 

 rough bark of the tree, or in some other protected place. 

 The species is both single-brooded and double-brooded. 

 The larvas winter in their cocoons, transforming to pupae 

 during early spring. 



The method of combating this pest that is most com- 

 monly employed now is to spray the trees with Paris- 

 green water, just after the petals fall and before the young 

 apples are heavy enough to droop. The falling spray 

 lodges in the blossom end of the young apple, and many 

 of the larvae which attempt to enter at this point, the 

 usual place of entrance, get a dose of poison with their 

 first meal. 



The Bud-moth, Tmctocera occllana (Tme-toc'e-ra oc-el- 

 la'na). — The larva of this insect is also a pest infesting ap- 

 ple-trees. It works in opening fruit-buds and leaf-buds, often 

 eating into them, especially the terminal ones, so that all new 

 growth is stopped. It also ties the young leaves at the end 

 of a shoot together and lives within the cluster thus formed, 

 adding other leaves when more food is needed. Sometimes 

 so large a proportion of the fruit-buds are destroyed as to 

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