. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . Fig. 479.—Apple loaf injured by the bud moth caterpillar—natural «ize.(After W. E. Britton.) effectively destroyed by spraying with arsenate of lead 1 poundto 10 gallons, which should be applied just as the buds are burstingand again before the trees blossom. 624 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD The Codling Moth * The common apple worm, the larva of the codling moth, isprobably the best known and most generally destructive of allthe apple insects. It is an old European insect and has beendistributed to almost all parts of the world where app
. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . Fig. 479.—Apple loaf injured by the bud moth caterpillar—natural «ize.(After W. E. Britton.) effectively destroyed by spraying with arsenate of lead 1 poundto 10 gallons, which should be applied just as the buds are burstingand again before the trees blossom. 624 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD The Codling Moth * The common apple worm, the larva of the codling moth, isprobably the best known and most generally destructive of allthe apple insects. It is an old European insect and has beendistributed to almost all parts of the world where apples are. Fig. 480.—The codling moth {Cydia pomondla Linn.): a, egg—greatlyenlarged; h, young larva hatching from egg; c, larva in winter cocoonon inside of a bit of bark; d, pupa—original; e, moth—after Slinger-land—all much enlarged. grown. The wormy apple is so well known that the workof the larva needs no description, but the aggregate loss whichit occasions is not always appreciated, as most of the injured * Cydia pomonella Linn. Family Tortricidce. See A. L. Quaintance,Yearbook U. S. Dept. Agr., 1907, p. 435; E. L. Jenne, Bulletin 80, Part LBureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agr.; C. B. Simpson, Bulletin 41, n. s.,Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr.; E. D. Sanderson, Bulletin 143, N. H. Agr. ; and bulletins of the State Agrcultural Experiment Stations. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE AND PEAR 625 fruit drops and no account is kept of the windfalls, and if the pickedfruit is not seriously infested the grower does not notice that hehas lost a large part of the ciop, though where the
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