344 PESTS OF ORCHARD AND SMALL FRUITS 
Fic. 540. — Adult of the Apple Maggot. Original. 
neath the skin of the apple. The maggot feeds in the pulp, completing 
its growth after the apple has fallen from the tree and has become more 
or less mellow. It then bores its way out, enters the ground, and re- 
Fic. 541.—Egg of the Apple 
Maggot, inserted beneath skin 
of fruit. Greatly enlarged. 
Original. 
mains there until the following July. 
The maggot cannot be killed by spray- 
ing because it feeds wholly within the 
pulp of the fruit during its entire life. 
Control consists in keeping dropped 
fruit picked up, so that the maggots 
will not have a chance to enter the 
ground. Very early fruit should be 
picked up twice a week, fall fruit once 
a week, and winter fruit once in two or 
three weeks. 
Live stock may be turned into an 
orchard to eat up the apples as they 
