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noticeable a cylindrical process, acting as a proleg. The colour varies 
somewhat ; dull, almost grey specimens may sometimes be seen. As 
soon as they are full grown they leave the fruit and crawl to some 
shelter, such as crevices in the poles, under the rough rind of the 
canes, or may enter the earth around the stocks. There they pupate 
and remain all the winter, the beetles hatching out in the spring 
about the time the blossom-buds are bursting. 
Wild blackberries are also attacked by this beetle, and from this 
source gardens may become invaded, as the beetles are very active on 
the wing in warm bright weather. 
Prevention and Remedies. 
When we notice numbers of beetles about on the raspberries in 
May and early in June we should go over the beds holding a tarred 
sack or boards on each side of the rows and jar the beetles off on to 
them. This should be done ou dull days, as the beetles are very 
active in bright sunshine and would fly away some distance. 
All primings and debris should be burnt in the winter, as this 
will destroy numbers of the pupae. The old bearing wood should 
always be burnt. 
In the early spring paraffin and ashes may be hoed into the ground 
near the stocks. 
Prevalence of Codling Moth in Foreign and 
Colonial Apples. 
Numerous larvae sent from imported apples proved to be those 
of the Codling Moth. 
The danger of the constant and great importation of this pest 
into Great Britain in American fruit (both from the United States and 
Canada) is 111 the parcels of fruit being sent out into our villages, 
bases have been recently investigated where Portuguese apples have 
been brought to Kent villages teeming with this pest ; we also get, 
especially as during the present year, when there is no local fruit, 
great numbers of American apples in the country. I11 the country 
the moths when they hatch out can easily get into gardens and in 
many cases orchards close by. That they do so in very large 
numbers is beyond doubt, and as long as this is allowed it is quite 
useless to advise any fruit grower to adopt any preventives in his 
orchard, as it is merely waste of time.* 
* In Natal all cases of Portuguese and other apples infested with this pest are 
dcstioyed ; during 1903 large quantities were burnt ( vide “ The Natal Journal A<ui 
and Mines,” Dec. 1903). 
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