. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. LEPiDOP TERA, 241 The Codlin-moth, Carpocapsa pomonella (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 fig. izz. — carpo- , . , • 1 1 r capsa pomo7
. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. LEPiDOP TERA, 241 The Codlin-moth, Carpocapsa pomonella (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 fig. izz. — carpo- , . , • 1 1 r capsa pomo7iella. Its eggs smgly m the maturmg blossoms ot the apple just as the petals fall. As soon as the larva hatches it burrows 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 the larva which hatches from an t^g laid in this position gets a dose of poison with its first meal, and dies before it can eat its way into the apple. The Bud-moth, Tmetocera ocellana (Tme-toc'e-ra oc-el- la'na).—The larva of this insect is also a pest infesting apple- 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 prop
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