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latitude. Usually, at the time it appears, the young ap- 

 ples are already set, and beginning to be about as large as 

 a hazel-nut. After coupling in the usual manner, the 

 female moth then proceeds to deposit a single egg in the 

 blossom end of the fruit, flying from fruit to fruit un til 

 her stock of eggs (amounting to probably two or three 

 hundred) is exhausted. Not long after accomplishing 

 this process she dies of old age and exhaustion. In a 

 short time afterwards the egg, no matter where it is 

 located, hatches out, and the young larva forthwith pro- 



Fig. 104.— APPLB-WOEM — CODLING MOTH (Carpocapsa pomoneHa, Linn.) 

 Perfect lasect ; Larra and Ita work ; Pupa at the lower right-hand aide. 



ceeds to burrow into the flesh of the apple, feeding as 

 it goes, but making its head-quarters in the core. In 

 three or four weeks time it is full grown, and sliortly 

 before this, the infested apple generally falls to tlie 

 ground. The larva then crawls out of the fruit throueh 

 a large hole in the cheek, which it has bored several 

 days beforehand for that express purpose, and usually 

 makes for the trunk of the tree, up which it climbs, and 

 spins around itself a silken cocoon of a dii'ty-white color 

 in any convenient crevice it can find, the crotch of the 

 tree being a favorite spot. Here it transforms into the 



