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in; but our observations show that many of the eggs are laid, 

 three, four or five feet from the nearest apple. Indeed, a con- 

 siderable proportion, sometimes a fifth to a third of the eggs, 

 are laid upon limbs which bear no apples whatever. Of course, 



Fig. 8.— The young apple worm feeding in the calyx cavity of the apple. 



those so far froin apples fail to reach the craved food, and doubt- 

 less most of them perish in the attempt, for we found there was 

 an egg within about ten inches of nearly every wormy apple, 

 whereas most of the worms which enter the apples probably come 

 from eggs on the leaves clustering around the apple and the 

 young worms do not have to crawl over four or five inches. Upon 

 reaching the nearest apple al)Out two-thirds of the wprms enter 

 them through the blossom end, feeding a little in the calyx to 



