LEPIDOPTERA. 
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The Codling-moth, Carpocapsa pomo?iella { Car-po-cap'sa 
pom-o-nel'la).—This is the best-known and probably the 
most important insect enemy of the fruit-grower. The 
larva is the worm found feeding near the core of wormy 
apples. The adult (Fig. 288) is a beautiful little creature 
with finely mottled pale gray or rosy fore 
wings. There is a large brownish spot near 
the end of the fore wing, and upon this spot 
irregular, golden bands. The moth issues 
from the pupa state in late spring and lays 
its eggs singly on the surface of the fruit or 
on adjacent leaves. As soon as the larva hatches it bur¬ 
rows into the apple and eats its way to the core, usually 
causing the fruit to fall prematurely. When full grown 
the larva burrows out through the side of the fruit, and 
undergoes its transformations within a cocoon, under the 
rough bark of the tree, or in some other protected place. 
The species is both single-brooded and double-brooded. 
The larvae winter in their cocoons, transforming to pupae 
during early spring. 
The method of combating this pest that is most com¬ 
monly employed now is to spray the trees with Paris- 
green water, just after the petals fall and before the young 
apples are heavy enough to droop. The falling spray 
lodges in the blossom end of the young apple, and many 
of the larvae which attempt to enter at this point, the 
usual place of entrance, get a dose of poison with their 
first meal. 
The Bud-moth, Tmetocera ocellana (Tme-toc'e-ra oc-el- 
la'na).—The larva of this insect is also a pest infesting ap¬ 
ple-trees. It works in opening fruit-buds and leaf-buds, often 
eating into them, especially the terminal ones, so that all new 
growth is stopped. It also ties the young leaves at the end 
of a shoot together and lives within the cluster thus formed, 
adding other leaves when more food is needed. Sometimes 
so large a proportion of the fruit-buds are destroyed as to 
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