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In the case of C. mollis the fruit ripens early and falls at once, 

 in September or October. The fruit is larger than that of some 

 other species, and while mealy and thin is sweet. The charac- 

 teristics of this variety and of the preceding three lend them- 

 selves to the present life history of the apple maggot. 



HUCKLEBERRIES AND BLUEBERRIES. 



There are two authentic instances of the occurrence of the 

 apple maggot in huckleberries. The species was bred from this 

 fruit in 1904 in Connecticut, and reported by Dr. Britton (2). 

 A few years later it was reared in New Jersey from berries col- 

 lected in the pine barrens of that state, the record being published 

 by Dr. Smith (57). 



In 1913 the apple maggot was found in blueberries in Maine. 

 Mr. William C. Woods, representing the Department of Ento- 

 mology of the Maine Station, collected infested berries in Wash- 

 ington County, which is a region of so-called ''barrens." From 

 these berries larvae and pupae were secured. From one pupa, kept 

 in the laboratory, an adult emerged in February, 1914, and the 

 identity was established. Infested berries were easily found in 

 the section visited, though making up but a small proportion of 

 the total. Berries in which the maggot was at work usually 

 were shriveled, with red and stringy pulp. Adults were observed 

 hovering around the bushes, and were collected and identified. 

 Infestation was found in three species of blueberry, Vaccinium 

 pennsylvanicum, V. canadense, and V. vacillans, including all of 

 the species noted in the section where the observations were 

 made. 



No other published records of the occurrence of the apple 

 maggot in blueberries are known to the writer. Infestation of 

 this fruit has not been observed by any of the state entomologists, 

 except in Maine. The records of the Bureau of Entomology, as 

 transmitted in a letter from Professor Quaintance dated March, 

 1914, are equally negative. 



In New Hampshire, the occurrence of the apple maggot in 

 blueberries was definitely determined in the spring of 1914, fol- 

 lowing the receipt of an account of the discoveries in Maine, 

 kindly furnished by the Maine Station. As a preliminary search, 

 inquiry was made among a number of fruit growers who had 



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