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THE FRUIT GROWER'S GUIDE. 



finding a tree, it climbs up, shelters in a crack or projecting portion of the bark, spins a 

 cocoon, and after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis. In that state it remains over the 

 winter, and the moth emerges the following season. The moth itself is a beautiful 

 creature, three-quarters of an inch in expanse, forewings ashy brown, with dark streaks 



uniting into a broadish band towards the 

 base. On the hinder border of the forewings 

 is a large reddish-brown patch, spotted and 

 surrounded with a golden mark. The hind 

 wings are reddish-brown, tinged with yellow. 

 The accompanying engraving represents the 

 moth and its destructive larvae. 



Shortly after emerging from the chrysalis 

 the moths pair ; the female deposits its eggs 

 in the eyes of the young apples and pears 

 from the end of May to July, one egg in 

 each, and when hatched, the grub gnaws a 

 hole in the crown of the fruit (sometimes on 

 the sides, especially of pears), soon burying 

 itself. The caterpillar is white when hatched, 

 but passes into a dirty or brownish red 

 colour. 



Measures for eradicating the codlin moth 

 Fig. 78. CODLIN MOTH (CABPOCAPSA POMONELLA). are rendered somewhat difficult because the 



Moth enlarged, upper figure; line, natural expanse enemy cannot be detected within Hie fruit 

 of wings ; grub enlarged on apple twig, central figure; 



larva in apple, lower figure, showing entrance by the until the mischief is done, and the moth, from 



eye, channel to and destruction of part pips, channel -> i \_'A_ $ L- .*. i.? 1, j? 



its habit of secreting itseli m the crevices of 



to rmd serving as outlet for dirt. 



the bark, is not easily caught. Gathering 



up the worm-eaten apples and pears promptly after falling and opening each before the 

 grub escapes, or giving fallen fruit at once to pigs, greatly reduce the numbers of 

 the enemy. Pigs should be turned into orchards in grass to eat up the fallen fruits 

 where the codlin moth prevails. 



The remedies against the moth are banding the trunks of the trees, and spraying 

 the fruL. The bands may be formed of old sacking or hay. Wrap a piece of old sack 

 about G inches broad around the tree trunk, fastening it with a piece of twine about the 



