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person who enters resolutely upon this work will destroy count¬ 
less numbers every hour. But it requires the combined efforts 
of a multitude of persons, when a district is overrun, to rid it of 
this pest; and bounties from the public treasury to encourage 
the destruction of such vermin, might as appropriately be paid, 
as for the destruction of wolves and other animals which are a 
public nuisance. 
I have only further to remark that where these insects have 
abounded, grapes and other choice fruits, which it was earnestly 
desired to save from destruction, have been effectually protected, 
by covering the vines and shrubs with millinet or some other 
similar netting. 
In the interior of ripened and stored apples accelerating their decay, whilst 
the outside remains fair; numerous slender tapering glassy-white 
worms. 
The Afplk midge, Molobrus Mali, new species. 
The common apple worm or larva of the codling moth (Car- 
pocapsa Pomonella,) a soft flesh-colored or white worm with a 
shining tawny yellow head, which feeds upon the seeds and ad¬ 
jacent fleshy parts of the apple and perforates a hole in its side 
through which to make its escape when ready to become a pupa, 
is the only insect which has been as yet noticed in our country 
as residing within this fruit. But from having observed apples 
the cores of which appeared to be depredated upon in a differ- 
ent manner from that of this worm, I have long entertained the 
opinion that we have other insects also which spoil this fruit 
from feeding internally upon it. And I have recently met with 
one insect of this kind, my investigations of which I here pre¬ 
sent. 
Among the apples exhibited at the annual meeting of the 
State Agricultural Society, February 1856, I noticed one perfo¬ 
rated with a hole from which a worm of the codling moth had 
made its exit. I took this apple at the close of the exhibition 
and examined it next day. It was a fine large specimen, fair 
externally and without any blemish except the perforation al¬ 
ready mentioned. But on cutting it open almost the whole of 
its interior was found to be decayed. Its fleshy part was mostly 
