86 FIELD NOTES ON APPLE CULTURE. 
CHAPTER XXI. 
THE CODLIN MOTH. 
The pretty little moth (Carpocapsa pomonella), repre- 
sented at natural size in figure 19, is the parent of the 
apple worm. It is a European insect, 
introduced into this country in the early & 
put of this century. Very few apple 
growers are acquainted with the moth, fig. 19.—cop- 
as it flies at night. The outer wings are ™ MOT. 
marked with irregular and ill-defined transverse streaks 
of gray and brown, and on the end they bear a brown, 
bronze-streaked spot. The inner wings and abdomen 
are light yellowish brown. The moth flies with its 
body in a nearly perpendicular position. There are 
many moths or “millers,” which, to the unpracticed 
eye, closely resemble this, and which are confounded 
with it. Hence arise the erroneous statements that 
the codlin moths are attracted by lights, and that they 
have been captured in great quantities in preparations of 
sweetened water, etc. 
The moth makes its appearance about the time that 
the apple blossoms appear. A moth lays about fifty eggs, 
according to Mr. Saunders. A single egg is laid in the 
“* blossom end” of the young apple, and in about a week 
it hatches, and the young larva eats its way into the 
apple. In three or four weeks the larva is full grown, and 
it leaves the apple to find a hiding place under the rough 
bark, where it may spin its cocoon and make the wonder- 
ful transformation into a moth. The second moth of 
