A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them . (or grub). Magnified. (From nature.). ?CBnJfU^aja /.. .-rf-TTC^., ZiTfyr-tl .???.^rd. *MTM^i(fj:, Ilal-c- V THE LIGHT-BEOWN APPLE MOTH. CHAPTEK X. THE LIGHT-BKOWN APPLE MOTH. (Cacaecia responsana.) Order : LepidoiHera. Family : Tortricidoe. This insect, which is known to growers by the name ofthe Australian Apple Moth, is a pest of the very worstkind, and in many cases its ravages have been of a mostserious nature. In appearance it is totally unlike the true Codlin Mothalth
A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them . (or grub). Magnified. (From nature.). ?CBnJfU^aja /.. .-rf-TTC^., ZiTfyr-tl .???.^rd. *MTM^i(fj:, Ilal-c- V THE LIGHT-BEOWN APPLE MOTH. CHAPTEK X. THE LIGHT-BKOWN APPLE MOTH. (Cacaecia responsana.) Order : LepidoiHera. Family : Tortricidoe. This insect, which is known to growers by the name ofthe Australian Apple Moth, is a pest of the very worstkind, and in many cases its ravages have been of a mostserious nature. In appearance it is totally unlike the true Codlin Mothalthough as so little has hitherto been known here of theperfect insects of either, it has in many cases been takenfor the imported Codlin Moth, Carpocapsa pomonella. The hal)its of this insect are very similar to those of thetrue Codlin Moth, inasmuch as the eggs are deposited inthe calyx of the young apple; the larvae however, as arule, do not always penetrate so far as the pips, andowing to this circumstance the grub will sometimesremain a long time within the ripening fruit, the mode ofattack being shown in Plate V., Fig. 1. The larva orgrub is
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