58 FRUIT CULTURE. 



because of its rapid spread over the entire con- 

 tinent, the difficulty of exterminating, and the 

 extent of damage which it does, it has become 

 the most serious evil which the orchardist has to 

 meet. The moth appears at the time of flower- 

 ing, depositing its eggs singly in the calyx end 

 of the young fruit, as it is forming. The egg 

 hatches in a few days, and the worm bores to the 

 heart of the fruit, and from thence works its 

 way out at one side, a full-grown flesh or pink- 

 ish-colored worm, in three or four weeks from 

 the egg. It then enters into the cocoon state, 

 finding shelter about the trunk of the tree, and 

 in two or three weeks more is transformed into 

 a moth for the second generation. The second 

 crop of larvae, if they escape from the fruit be- 

 fore it is gathered, spin their cocoons under the 

 loose bark of the tree, or some similar shelter. 

 But if carried with the fruit to the cellar, they 

 will be found around the crevices and hoops of 

 the barrels. 



Figure 1 is copied from Saunders's work upon 

 insects, as best illustrating the habits of this 

 most destructive pest. The puncture by the 

 moth is represented at 5, the borings of the 

 larva at a, the mature worm at e, the moth with 

 wings closed at y, the moth with wings ex- 

 panded at y, and the cocoon at i. 



