88 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Still later the calyx is almost entirely closed, so that it will be 

 impossible for the poison to enter. As the fruit develops the 

 apple gradually turns downward instead of standing upright, 

 as it does at first. The calyx will not then hold the poison. 

 While we can always combat this insect by spraying, we can 

 also kill many of the pupse by placing around the trunk of the 

 tree a band under which many of the larvae will crawl and 

 transform. The band should be removed occasionally and the 

 pupas destroyed. 



Fig. 6. — Young Apple Fruit. The diagram at the left shows the proper 

 condition for the first spraying ; the calyx is wide open. The 

 figure at the right shows the calyx nearly closed ; too late for 

 first application. 



Hazeltine's moth trap is a piece of apparatus much adver- 

 tized for protecting apple orchards. It is claimed to do great 

 things. This has been questioned by many entomologists in 

 the country. I was reading the other day a statement that it 

 caught in an entire season only one or two specimens of certain 

 noxious insects, and many which are beneficial, and which we 

 do not want to kill. On the whole, therefore, I think it has 

 been decided that the injury was far greater than the benefit 

 from the use of a trap of this sort. 



You are all familiar with the common peach lx)rer, Saninno- 

 idca exitiosa, which attacks our peach trees. The eggs are 

 laid during June and July and the larvae work in the 

 trees, usually becoming full-grown the following spring. They 

 are often found in the masses of gum which exude from the 



