VOL. XIX. (I) NOTES ON THE CODLINCx MOTH 
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My earliest date appears to be the 8th May, and the latest 
the 14th August. These dates are interesting, as showing the 
much extended period of emergence of the imago. The 
majority of my specimens have been captured in my garden 
in the evening in a butterfly net with a handle about three 
feet long. At the end of May, throughout June and the first 
half of July, the images fly round the tops of my apple and 
pear trees on fine calm evenings, just as the sun is going down 
between 6.30 and 8.30 p.m. The flight is a buzzing one, and 
the insects occasionally settle on the leaves or fruit. They are 
very active on the wing and difficult to catch because they 
keep about 15 to 20 feet from the ground. 
I have frequently noticed tom-tits in the autumn and 
winter very busily hopping about the branches of a King of 
the Pippin apple tree in my garden, examining every nook and 
cranny, and I feel sure that they devour large quantities of 
the larva of the Codling Moth. When it is remembered that 
each female lays about 100 eggs, and each larva is capable of 
spoiling three or four apples, the value of the services of these 
beautiful little birds in checking the insects cannot be over- 
estimated. 
Mr W. B. Davis, of Stroud, says that the moth is rare in 
his district, and that he has never met with it away from 
cultivation or seen any signs of it among the wild crab in the 
woods and hedgerows. Apparently the species does not like 
the hills, or the limestone does not suit it. The four other 
species of the genus found in this country are Carpocapsa 
splendana (larva on acorns), C. grossana (larva on beech mast), 
C. juliana (larva on acorns and edible chestnuts) and C. nimb- 
ana (larva on beech nuts). The larva in the jumping beans 
exhibited in shop windows in Gloucester some years ago was 
the larva of a foreign species of the genus called Carpocapsa 
saltitans. Mr V. R. Perkins, F.E.S., in his List of Gloucester- 
shire Lepidoptera (unpublished), says : — “ In gardens and 
orchards generally distributed but not often common — 
Gloucester, Merrin, Clutterbuck ; Painswick, Watkins." I 
have taken C. splendana and C. grossana, but have no personal 
knowledge of C. juliana and C. nimhana. 
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