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b. Legless maggots or grubs. 



Very small slender white maggots mining in the flesh of the 



apple leaving brownish tracks. 



3. Apple maggot or railroad worm. Page 57. 



A small white grub mining in the very small wind falls in 



early summer (fig. 25). 4. Plum curculio. Page 60. 



c. Mature insects. 



A gnarled blackish snout beetle with dusky reddish markings, 

 puncturing the fruit, (fig. 27). 



4. Plum curculio. Page 60. 



A flat yellowish mottled bug with slender beak; ovipositing 

 in and deforming the fruit, (fig. 28). 



5. Tarnished plant bug. Page 62. 



A long legged yellowish brown beetle feeding on fruit. 



(fig. 18). Rose chafer. Page 44. 



d. Plantlice. Colonies of reddish or green aphids feeding on the 



small fruit, dwarfing and puckering it. 



Aphis sorbi. Page 20. 

 Aphis pomi. Page 20. 



Lesser Apple Worm. 

 ( Enarmonia prunivora . ) 



The larva feeds upon the apple in a manner similar to that 

 of the codling moth, for which it is doubtless frequently mis- 

 taken. Besides by its smaller size the larva may be distin- 

 guished from that of the codling moth by the presence of the 

 anal fork. The adult moth expands about f of an inch across 

 the wing. The ground color of the front wings is black, with 

 patches of pale rusty red, of gray, and of yellowish white and 

 steel blue oblique lines. The hind wings are dusky gray at the 

 base, shading to black at the apex. 



remedies. 



The insect may be combated by the spray used against the 

 )dling moth. ■ 



codling moth. 



The Codling Moth. 

 (Carpocapsa pomonella L.) 



The codling moth passes the winter in the larval stage in 

 silken cocoons in cracks and holes in the trees and in houses 

 where apples have been stored. In the spring these larvse 



