THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUTIIST. 



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saturated witli the sweet liquid and fastened to the trunks of the trees. 

 If this is done during the periods when insect life is most abundant, 

 moths visit the baits by scores and sometimes hundreds, when by the 

 use of a dark lantern and suitable collecting bottles, the most desirable 

 specimes are secured. I have followed tliis practice myself for many 

 years, and have thus caught thoiisands of moths, and have seen tens 

 of thousands come to sip the attractive sweets, but never once saw a 

 codlin moth among them. Many entomologists have pursued this 

 method of collecting more enthusiastically than I have, and witliin 

 the past eight or ten years some of them have published long lists of 

 their captures, but no one to my knowledge has ever mentioned an 

 instance where a codlin moth had been attracted by sugar. It would 

 be well if the parties who have been so successful in this way would 

 send specimens of their captures to some entomologist, who could 

 determine tliem with certainty. In the absence of such evidence it is 

 highly probable that some other small moths have been mistaken for 

 codlin moths. 



As to the statement of their going under ground to ch?inge to 

 chrysalids, this is certainly erroneous, as it is contrary to linivCTsal 

 experience. Hundreds and thousands of the worms are yearly caught 

 hiding and changing to chrysalids under bands tied around the trunks 

 -and Jower limbs of apple trees, which clearly proves tliat their habit 

 is not to burrow unden the earth when about to underfjo this change. 



In as few words as .posisible I will endeavor to give a sketch of the 



life history of this insect, with the 

 best known remedies for its des- 

 truction. In the accompanying 

 figure the moth is represented at 

 f with its wings closed, at g with 

 its wings expanded; « shows the 

 worm, h indicates the point where 

 it usually enters the fruit, d, the 

 chrysalis, while the elongated silky 

 case attaclied to a small piece of 

 bark is the cocoon, in wliich tlie 

 chrysalis lies snugly encased. 

 Soon after tlie mature worm 



•leaves the fruit in the autumn, or during the early winter in fruit 



