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under the skin of the fruit. The resulting grub feeds 

 in the flesh, usually at the pit in stone fruits, where it 

 completes it growth, and is the cause of worminess in 

 peaches, plums and cherries. Beginning in the spring, 

 shortly after the fruit is set, and continuing for four 

 or five weeks the beetles should be jarred from the 



PLUM CURCULIO. 



a, Larva; b, adult; c, pupa. 



trees every day or so on sheets held or placed on the 

 ground under the trees. A forcible stroke with a 

 padded mallet causes most of them to fall. The 

 beetles may also be poisoned by spraying the trees 

 with arsenate of lead at the rate of 2 pounds to 50 

 gallons of water, making the first application as soon 

 as the blossoms have fallen, and repeating twice at 

 intervals of about ten days. This treatment, how- 

 ever, sometimes causes injury to the foliage, especially 

 of the peach. 



Codling Moth. Wormy apples, the work of the 

 codling moth, are familiar to all lovers of this fruit. 

 Although this insect is successfully controlled, it still 

 imposes upon the apple growers of the United States 

 a tax of about twelve million dollars annually. Two 

 or three weeks after blooming of trees the moths are 

 depositing eggs in numbers here and there on the 

 foliage and fruit. Young larvae, upon hatching, mostly 



