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HALF HOURS WITH INSECTS. [Packard. 
chief it has done in the orchard, and that it is the cause of 
the wormy apples in the cellar. So with the average farmer 
or gardener. He little suspects that the apples falling in a 
still night from his trees are loosened from their twig by the 
young of the innocent looking moth which may be seen fly¬ 
ing about the house, when the apple trees are in blossom, 
and again in the middle of August, when the apples are half 
formed. Many may recall the appearance of the repulsive 
little whitish caterpillar or “worm/’ occurring in wormy 
apples, who are not at all acquainted with the moth. It is 
rather smaller than the apple leaf roller, with narrower 
wings, and grayish ash-colored. Across the wings pass 
slightly marked numerous darker transverse lines, with a 
prominent curved black line, edged with a coppery tint, near 
an eye-like patch on the inner angle. The wings expand 
over half an inch. She lays her eggs in the calyx of the 
blossoms of the apple, just as the petals are falling. The 
worm hatches in a few days, burrowing into the core. In 
three weeks the caterpillar becomes full-sized, the apple pre¬ 
maturely drop£, the worm deserts it, creeps up under the 
bark of the tree, cocooning and in a few days after a brood 
of moths appear. They are the parents of the worms which 
may be found through the winter and early spring under the 
bark, housed in their cocoons. 
Taking advantage of this habit of cocooning in crevices, 
the best plan in dealing with these insects is to wind cloths 
and bands of straw around the trunks. During the last 
half of summer and the autumn they can be removed every 
few days and burned, and others put in their place. 
When the fruit is stored in the cellar the maggots of three 
kinds of flies emulate the example of the caterpillar of the 
coddling moth, and further despoil the orchardist, and wound 
the feelings of the lover of good apples. 
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