. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 24 SPRAYING THE APPLE ORCHARD. times a fifth to a third of the eggs, are laid upon limbs which bear no apples whatever. Of course those so far from apples fail to reach the craved food and doubtless most of them perish in the attempt, for we found there was an egg within about ten inches of nearly every wormy apple, whereas most of the worms which enter the apples prob- ably come from eggs on the leaves clustering around the apple and the young worms do not have to crawl over four or five inches. Upon reaching the nearest apples about two thirds or thr
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 24 SPRAYING THE APPLE ORCHARD. times a fifth to a third of the eggs, are laid upon limbs which bear no apples whatever. Of course those so far from apples fail to reach the craved food and doubtless most of them perish in the attempt, for we found there was an egg within about ten inches of nearly every wormy apple, whereas most of the worms which enter the apples prob- ably come from eggs on the leaves clustering around the apple and the young worms do not have to crawl over four or five inches. Upon reaching the nearest apples about two thirds or three fourths of the worms enter them through the blossom end, feeding a little in the calyx cavity to appease their hunger after the long jour- ney, and then boring directly for the core. This feeding in. Fig. 16.—The "worminess " of the apple shown at the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. [Hanover, N. H. ] : New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
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