50 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA: 



It has- been stated on good authority that the grub 

 of the Codlin Moth does not remain in the fruit after 

 it has fallen from the tree, but this assertion is hardly 

 borne out by facts, as I myself have reared the moths 

 from grubs taken from the apple, the fruit having been 

 picked up from off the ground, hence the necessity of 



fathering up and destroying the grub-eaten apples which 

 ave fallen. 



The mode of exit of the grub from the apple is 

 somewhat singular, and the alleged and usual declina- 

 tion in the shape or direction of the "tunnel" by which 

 the larvae escape from the fruit is not shown on our plate, 

 the figure having been drawn from nature (see Plate II., 

 Fig. 3), the apple having been kindly sent to me by Mr. 

 Neilson, showing therefore that the mode of exit is not 

 always the same, although usually the declination can be 

 plainly seen, as mentioned by F. C. Christy, of the Field 

 Naturalists' Club, and others. 



Prevention and Remedies. 



As to prevention and remedies, it will be remembered 

 that it is but a few years ago when many orchardists 

 were preparing to give up the growing of apples and 

 pears, out of sheer despair, as no sooner had thev, by 

 the aid of blight-proof stocks, coupled with their own 

 exertions, succeeded in successfully fighting the woolly- 

 aphis and other pests, than the pear-slug, apple 

 mussel-scale, and other accursed importations seem 

 to come along and baffle all their best efforts to ex- 

 terminate them. Little wonder, then, that these people 

 should be apprehensive for the future of fruit-growing. 

 Now, however, since the justly proverbial go-ahead 

 system of our American friends has been so success- 

 fully carried out in the direction of "casting about" for 

 remedies against pests all and sundry, we have, chiefly 

 by their aid and investigations, become possessed of 

 valuable remedies against the Codlin Moth and other 

 insects, which, if properly and judiciously applied and 



