VOL. XIX. (i) NOTES ON THE CODLING MOTH 
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NOTES ON THE CODLING MOTH 
{Carpocapsa pomonella Linn.) 
BY 
C. GRANVILLE CLUTTERBUCZ, P.E.S. 
(Read 23rd November, 1915). 
The Codling Moth, like all butterflies and moths, goes 
through four stages of existence — the ovum, or egg, the larva, 
or caterpillar, the pupa, or chrysalis, and the imago, or perfect 
insect stages. Most people have probably noticed on biting 
some apple that it is occupied by a pinkish grub. The apple 
is in fact the home of the larva of this very beautiful little 
moth. The moth belongs to the Tortricina, a group of the 
Lepidoptera. 
Miss Ormerod, in the Board of Agriculture leaflet No. 30, 
has described this moth and its ravages upon apples. In 
my own garden, the King Pippin and Dutch Mignonne suffer 
severely — far more so than Warner’s King. 
The egg is laid by the female singly on the young apple in 
June or July, the caterpillar hatches in a few days, eats into 
the apple, devours the pips, bores its way out and into another ; 
is full fed in September, leaves the apple, hides either on or 
near the tree, or in the apple store in almost any crevice, where 
it hybernates in a cocoon of spun silk, changing to a chrysalis 
in April or May. 
In addition to the remedies set out in the Leaflet 
No. 30, it may be noted that Mr C. G. Barrett, F.E.S., 
in his “ British Lepidoptera,” vol. xi., p. 155, says : — 
” Since the larva passes from one apple to another, eating 
only the pips, it has been found that by examining 
the young apples on standard trees, and removing those 
the skin of which is pierced only on one side, the larva 
may be secured and destroyed, and thus a portion of the crop 
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