. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 1. Cockchafer. COCKCHAFER. 2. Grub. 3. Chrysalis. to the species. The grub of the green or rose chafer (Cetonia aura/a), a brilliant metallic green beetle, often found on Roses and other flowers, closely resembles that of the cockchafer, and is equally injurious to plants. The grubs of another much smaller species, the garden chafer (Phyllopertha hofticola), are very injurious to grass. The beetle is only about Ain in length. Codlin Moth, The (Carpocapsa ponionella).—Growers of fruit are only too we
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 1. Cockchafer. COCKCHAFER. 2. Grub. 3. Chrysalis. to the species. The grub of the green or rose chafer (Cetonia aura/a), a brilliant metallic green beetle, often found on Roses and other flowers, closely resembles that of the cockchafer, and is equally injurious to plants. The grubs of another much smaller species, the garden chafer (Phyllopertha hofticola), are very injurious to grass. The beetle is only about Ain in length. Codlin Moth, The (Carpocapsa ponionella).—Growers of fruit are only too well acquainted with this very common pest, whose caterpillars feed on various fruits. They have been found in Apples, Pears, Quinces, Plums, Peaches, Apricots, Sweet Chestnuts, and even Walnuts ; but Apples are the most commonly attacked. The eggs are laid usually in the eye of the Apple, and the caterpillar works down the core, feeding on the pips and on the adjoining flesh of the fruit, leaving small masses of brown droppings in the gallery that it forms. When full grown it eats its way out of the Apple, falls to the ground, and makes its way to the stem of the tree, or of some other that happens to be near, and, finding a suitable crack or crevice in the bark, spins a thin cocoon within which it becomes a chrysalis. The moths leave the chrysalides in the spring, and lay their eggs as soon as the fruit has set. There are various ways in which this insect may be destroyed. If many of the fruits are seen to be injured, the tree should be well shaken, and all that falls (which has probably been attacked) should at once be picked up. The injured fruit may be generally known by having some of the droppings of the caterpillar on it, and it should be destroyed before the caterpillar has time to make its escape. All the fruit that falls from the tree should be collected at once for the same reason. All the loose rough bark should be scraped off the stems and branches as far as it is
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