Eighth Report of the State Entomologist, 247 



set, reports ii the present year as honeycombing his apples. Sev- 

 eral years ago its operations were observed in Connecticnt, and 

 it has been discussed in the late meetings of the State Board of 

 Agriculture. From Brunswick, Maine, it is reported by Mr. T. S. 

 BtcLellan as having made its appearance in his orchard in 1880, 

 and infested all his sweet apples and most of the tart ones, such as 

 the Haley, llurlbut, Primate, Porter, etc. He had also heard of it 

 from the northern part of Somerset county^ 7th Ann. Rep. Ma 'me St. 

 Board of Agriculture for 1883, p. 345). Mr. Kobert H. Gardiner, 

 President of the Maine State Pomological Society, states that the 

 maggot was very destructive in 18S3 to his Talman Sweet, Eed 

 Astraehan and Mother apples, but did not trouble other varieties 

 (lb., p. 332). 



In the State of New York it has proved a great pest at North 

 Hempstead, Long Island, and in several of the Hudson river coun- 

 ties, and has also occurred in Delaware, Albany, Schenectady, 

 Oneida, and Chemung counties, and is doubtless to be found in 

 many other portions of the State. As yet we have no knowledge 

 of its extension into New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Southern or 

 the extreme Western States.* 



It appears, thus far, to be a local insect, and the fact that it is 

 so should be an incentive for the use of every known means for 

 the prevention of its distribution, that it may not become as gener- 

 ally distributed as is the apple-worm of the codling-moth.. 



Preference for Early Apples. — The insect in its past history, 

 especially in its earlier history, has shown a marked preference for 

 summer and autumn apples — always making its most vigorous 

 attack upon sweet and mellow subacid early fruit. Yet it is 

 known to have infested Spitzenbergs, in Brandon, Vt., and Bald- 

 wins and other varieties of winter apples, in Wialltngford, Conn. 



Remedial Measures. — This preference of the insect for certain 

 varieties might be employed as a means for its destruction, by 

 grafting the trees of an infested orchard to the varieties less liable 

 to be infested, or, so far as known, entirely free from attack, and 

 at the same time leaving two or three trees of its favorite fruit 

 to serve as lures for concentrating the attack — the fruit of which 



[* In the Smith Catalogue of the Insects of New Jersey, 1890, it is included, with the note, 

 "Locally injurious to apple, but seems confined to very few varieties."] 



