Insects injurious to fruits . generally enters the apple where it has been bored by the cod-ling worm, or through the punctures made by the apple cur-culio, and sometimes through the calyx when the apple isquite sound. In August the fly (see Fig. 144, 6) matures anddeposits eggs for another brood, and successive generationsfollow until w inter begins. The pupse may be found duringthe winter in the bottoms of apple-barrels, and in this inac-tive state they remain until the following season. Usually 138 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. several insects are found in the same apple, and sometimes th
Insects injurious to fruits . generally enters the apple where it has been bored by the cod-ling worm, or through the punctures made by the apple cur-culio, and sometimes through the calyx when the apple isquite sound. In August the fly (see Fig. 144, 6) matures anddeposits eggs for another brood, and successive generationsfollow until w inter begins. The pupse may be found duringthe winter in the bottoms of apple-barrels, and in this inac-tive state they remain until the following season. Usually 138 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. several insects are found in the same apple, and sometimes thefruit is ahnost alive with them, when, being rapidly riddledwith their borings, it speedily decays. No. 63.—The Apple mail Fitch. This is a very small insect, about one-eighteenth of an inchlong. It is slender, of a blackish-purple color, with narrow^silvery-white wings. Occasionally apples are found early inAugust, small and withered, with a cavity near their tip,about the size of a pea, and the surfac
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