APPLE MOTH. 
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iiess; the hole is, however, very easily seen, from its 
always having adhering to it on the outside an accumula- 
tion of little grains which have heen thrust through. 
Having completed this work the grub returns towards the 
centre of the apple, where he feeds at his ease. When 
within a few days of being full-fed, he for the first time 
enters the core through a round hole gnawed in the hard, 
horny substance which always separates the pips from the 
pulp of the fruit, and the destroyer now finds himself in 
that spacious chamber w^hich codlings in particular always 
have in their centre. From this time he eats only the pips, 
never again tasting the more common pulp which hitherto 
had satisfied his unsophisticated palate : now nothing less 
than the highly-flavoured, aromatic kernels will suit his 
tooth, and on these for a few days he feasts in luxury. 
Somehow or other, the pips of an apple are connected 
with its growth, as the heart of an animal w4th its life ; — 
injure the heart, an animal dies : injure the pips, an apple 
falls. Whether the fall of his house gives the tenant 
Avarning to quit, I cannot say, but quit he does, and that 
almost immediately ; he leaves the core, crawls along his 
breathing and clearing-out gallery, the mouth of which, 
before nearly closed, he now gnaws into a smooth, round 
hole, which will permit him free passage without hurting 
his fat, soft, round body ; then out he comes, and for tlie 
first time in his life finds himself in the open air. He now 
wanders about on the ground till he finds the stem of a 
tree : up this he climbs, and hides himself in some nice 
little crack in the bark.* I should remark, that the fall of 
A talented entomologist assures me that the species pomonanus frequently 
buries itself in the g-round, after the manner of the larger species of nocturnal 
Lepidoptera. — E. N. 
