Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . MtrsciD^. 415 the earlier varieties, seeming to have a particular fondness forthe old fashioned Summer, or High-top Sweet. The larvae en-ter the apple usually where it has been bored by the Apple-worm (Carpocapsa), not uncommonly through the crescent-likepuncture of the curculio, and sometimes through the calyx,when it has not been troubled by other insects. Many ofthem arrive at maturity in August, and the fly soon appears,and successive generati
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . MtrsciD^. 415 the earlier varieties, seeming to have a particular fondness forthe old fashioned Summer, or High-top Sweet. The larvae en-ter the apple usually where it has been bored by the Apple-worm (Carpocapsa), not uncommonly through the crescent-likepuncture of the curculio, and sometimes through the calyx,when it has not been troubled by other insects. Many ofthem arrive at maturity in August, and the fly soon appears,and successive generations of the maggots follow until coldweather. I have frequently found the pupse in the bottom ofbarrels in a cellar in the winter, and the flies appear in thespring. In the earl}^ apples, the larvae work about in everydirection. If there areseveral in an apple, thejmake it unfit for that appear per-fectly sound when takenfrom the tree, will some-times, if kept, be all alivewith them in a few Fig. 338. weeks. Other species are known to inhabit putrescentvegetable matter, especially fruits. Mr. B. D. Walsh also des-cribes in his First
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