AN APPLE THIEF 
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no time in pondering over the matter. They be¬ 
gin to tunnel right where they land, and this as 
often as not is in the side of the apple. Unless 
the orchardist has taken the precautions to give 
the fruit a thorough covering of spray dope—we 
use arsenate of lead—the worm is not long in 
burying itself from sight. 
“ Thenceforward its career is the same as that 
of its parents, with this difference: Ordinarily, 
when the second brood leaves the shelter of the 
apple, the season is near its close. They get 
themselves into some carefully secluded shelter 
and prudently wrap themselves up warmly there 
to sleep through the winter in their pupa cases, 
emerging in the spring about blossom-time. Of 
course, there are always certain specimens, like 
the one you have found, Tommy, which are so 
belated that they meet death in their luscious 
nurseries. In some localities, when spring opens 
unusually early, three broods of codling-moths 
are registered.” 
