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jurious to orchards) there was a solitary specimen of the Carpocapsa 

 2:)omoneUa, is one that will never be answered. 



In replying, I'roin my own expeiience, to the question that heads 

 this aiticle, my answer is : not in open-mouthed bottles or vessels of 

 liquor, as I have lonnd to ray disgust. For several years I have 

 expel inu'uted with sweetened water, vinegar, sour milk and other 

 solutions, invariably without any good results, and my experience is 

 sustained by some of our most experienced entomologists. 



A friend of mine is confident that he destroys the codling moth as 

 well as other insects, b^' bonfires through the orchard the last of June 

 or in July. Yet it is an indisputable fact that this destructive insect 

 is less attracted by light than other iusects. It works b3' night and 

 is rarely seen in its natural state in the day time. 



My own opinion is that the codling moth cannot thus be destroyed. 

 I will now refer briefly to a few methods of trapping the codling moth, 

 each of which is successful to a limited extent only. The first, and 

 that which is most satisfactor}', because of its certainty, is to keep 

 the doors and windows of the fruit house or cellar closed from the 

 time the trees blossom through the month of July, or until all the 

 larvos have hatched and come from their cocoons, which may be 

 found secreted in the crevices of barrels, boxes and baskets. In 

 these dark recesses the insect changes to the perfect moth, and soon 

 finds its wa}' to the window in its attempt to reach the orchard. I 

 have often taken advantage of this fact b\' destroying, with the aid of 

 a broom, hundreds if not thousands yearly, as they fluttered on the 

 inside of the window pane. 



In localities where one is not troubled by his neighbor's insects 

 many larvae of this moth may be trap[)ed and largely destroyed by 

 tacking cloth bands around the trees just before the worm begins to 

 leave the fruit. Cloth is considered much better than paper for this 

 purpose. With strips of thick, warm cloth tacked around the trunk of 

 the tree, I have in some cases caught not less than fifty at one ex- 

 amination of a tree. These examinations should be made weekly, 

 and continued through August. Better results are obtained, if at 

 the time of a{)plying the cloth the trunk of the tree and larger limbs 

 are scrai)ed and the hiding places removed. After scraping the tree 

 apply a strong soap wash to keep the bark smooth. 



Many insects may be destroyed b}' picking off the wormy fruit as 

 soon as it can be detected, before the insect leaves the fruit to enter 

 the chrysalis state, and although but a part of the infected ones may 



