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PESTS OF ORCHARD AND SMALL FRUITS 



Fig. 540. — Adult of the Apple Maggot. Original. 



neath the skin of the apple. The maggot feeds in the pulp, completing 

 its growth after the apple has fallen from the tree and has become more 

 or less mellow. It then bores its way out, enters the ground, and re- 

 mains there until the following July. 



The maggot cannot be killed by spray- 

 ing because it feeds wholly within the 

 pulp of the fruit during its entire life. 

 Control consists in keeping dropped 

 fruit picked up, so that the maggots 

 will not have a chance to enter the 

 ground. Very early fruit should be 

 picked up twice a week, fall fruit once 

 a week, and winter fruit once in two or 

 Fig. .541. — Egg of the Apple three weeks. 



Maggot, inserted beneath skin ^ . , , , , i • , 



of fruit. Greatly enlarged. ^ive stock may be turned mto an 



Original. orchard to eat up the apples as they 



