270 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



vise ; a projecting strip of leather fastened edgewise to the 

 tree and oiled ; a tarred band ai-ound it ; or a thick, broad belt 

 or band, coated with India-rubber melted by heat, which is 

 quite adhesive, but does not harden. 



The birds destroy large numbers of them, and Harris says 

 there is a splendid ground-beetle that watches for and catches 

 them as they come down from the trees ; various parasites also 

 disable the larvje, and destroy the eggs to a considerable ex- 

 tent. See also page 96. 



CORE WORM AND PARENT MOTH. 



Fig. 130. 



^ 'imt .^iiH^y^tee 



a. Larva. h. Carpocap?a Poraonella, natural .= ize. 



c, " , niagnifitaL d. " " magniHeLl. 



JMoth small and grayish, w"itli a large brown spot on the 

 hinder part of the fore wings ; the smaller wings and body 

 yellowish brown ; the textm-c of the wings appearing like 

 watered silk. 



The core worm is a small, flesh-colored worm or grub, found 

 in the apple-core, sometimes causing the fruit to drop prema- 

 tm'cly from the tree. 



When the apples fall, if not before, the worm leaves the fruit, 

 and hides in the crevices of the bark, to spin and wait for the 

 return of spring. The moth comes out in all June, and im- 

 mediately deposits her eggs singly in the eye of the young 

 fruit. They hatch in a few days, and the young worm pro- 

 ceeds to eat in to the heart. 



Remedy : scrape the bai'k in the early spring, and bum the 

 scrapings. Let hogs run in the orchard to eat the falling 

 fruit, and every day gather what they do not eat and boil them, 

 or feed them to other swine. Old cloths in the crotches of the 

 trees or lying loose around will furnish hiding-places in which 

 the worms may be caught by looking them over weekly ; also 

 evening fires in the orchard in moth-time will destroy many. 



