Show TO Kilt KILL COOLING CODLING MOTH Geore George Compere Brings a Blessing lessig From Austia Australia HE MAY VIS VISiT T UTAH LATER BREEDS INSECTS TO DESTROY THE FRUIT PEST PEST Some of the large frit fruit growers of Utah propose Inviting George COmpere government entomologist of Western Australia V who is non In San Frn Fran Francisco cisco Isco to come to this state distrIbute ute i a few jars of te the parasite that destroys the codling moth or of which ba was the discoverer while in Spain The name of r this parasite is Car Prior to finding the moth par parasite asie Mr Ir Compere discovered a pant pan site for Cor the fruit fy fly while sojourning In Brai Brazil He made a collection of the In Insects insects sects put them into a jar arid and took them to Australia where here they vere ere put to work and they soon multi several million fold and wrought gret great havoc among the Ule fruit fes fesA flies A similar course wn wits pursued with tile the codling moth parsie parasite They soon made Iliade th moths scarce In the orchards orchards in which th they were liberated V Jars Ful Full of Bugs V The government of T sfern Au Autra tra Ua ha speedily realized the great value to fruit growers of te the gave Mr lr Compere every necessary encouragement Not Ith the great work he was doing in hi Australia he brought rought his discovery ot of te the codling mot moth to the attention of the the entomologists or of the otel other Austra governments but they belittled It would have none of I It until acer after great areas of orchards In his own had been freed of the moths and they could no longer ignore the great benefit ho he had conferred upon the horticulturists or of western vestern Austra la tin V He also brought the parasite to the notice of entomologists In the United States but up to the present time he has had no occasion to make use of the parasite In any of the states or territories except California There Ther he Is breeding malY many jars of the de deStroyers In the of Commissioner of Horticulture Edward EdwardI SI I Erhorn In San Frncisco Francisco The gen tem tieman n when he learned if the work Mr lr Compere had done In his own land to tet test the efficacy of the he parasite as an exterminator of the codling moth in III the orchards of Calt V How the Work Is Done In a n relating to his discovery and the method of the p ra site In destroying the moth Mr lr Corn Com Compere pore pere says I 1 discovered te the parasite of the fruit fy fly in Brazi Brazil and took It wih with me per to western Australia an l kept those Insect insects alve alive for days a continuous journey reaching Austraha Austra la ha in the dead of winter I 1 had always been bel under the im impression impression that the codling moth pra para paraSite site existed isted in hi southern Europe There Therefore fore Core while I was in that countrY country I Ipa pa paid d particular attention to that not that I was working on a separate and distinct insect from that tha at the time The parasite belongs to the ichneumon mon family and these insect insects are gen emly orally tile the enemies enemies of al all butterfly and teth larvae each euch species having their own particular specIes to feed foed upon I It Itis Is a member of a very large larse grout group of insectS insect The Tho parasite searches over the bark of the hc tree and where i it a place where the moth larvae has grubbed Under under the loose bark or of the Crul fruit tree It immediately Immediate benins to place itself over the spot and wih with the Ovipositor gg egg tube it feels Is Its way Into the cocoon and nd i If the worm Is In InI Inthe I the proper condition to receive the egg not boxing received any egg before the parasite immediately begins to loop her body underneath underneath formIng a der derrick derrick rick with her feet feet There Then wih with great ski skill she thrusts her ovipositor Into the moth larvae which destroys destro 8 the life of thE the larvae of the mot moti Be Before Before fore she thrusts out the ovipositor she deposit deposits an egg upon the moth larvae Thi This egg Is hatched by the warmth that remains In the dead body 0 of the codling moth larae larvae That egg gg take takes from to thirl ix hours to hatch when wen the young oung larvae immediately proceed to suck out the body juices and the worm shrivels In th mean meanwhile while the grub Is growing and after ful full size i It transforms Into a pu pupa pa und and In this state rests for a short period when te the adul adult parsie parasite reap reappear reappears pear pears to begin her cycle ccle again |