Show HOW APPLE IS most moat serious enemy of all the faye hundred indred different kinds of enemies Is codling moth cfall of nil the BOO different kinds of in sects which which attack the apple the fruits anost serious enemy Is the codling moth it la Is nothing unusual for or ful fully iyone one fourth of an apple crop to be ruined by the coaling moth in new york state the value of the fruit destroyed in this woy way evory every year to Is estimated at over the codling moth passes the winter as a full fall growth caterpillar curled up lil in a tough silken cocoon under flakes of df bark or in in the trees with the first warm days daya of spring the 04 caterpillars begin io id transform to dark brownish browni ili pupae about two weeks after the apple blossoms fallahe fall the pupae pupae become moths theft wings when expanded measure about three fourths of an inch the ove life of a moth la Is about ten days and each female lays from 30 to IDO eggs these hatch batch in ten L A codling moth worm burrowing its ita way the core where it eats eata the seeds and hollows out bout a a cavity days or less into little caterpillars whitish 1 in color and about one six of an inch la In length the little little e caterpillars ater pillars live for a little while on the leaves but bui s soon oon i hontake make take thel their way Y to the young apples where they find the feeding they like bests most of them enter ariter the apples nt at thel the blossom end after feeding for ar a short time in iii the eaty calyx cavity they burrow to the core ia bat eat t atie S e seeds and and hollow out aute oute a large cavity c 1 which becomes coin filled with masses of waste matter ands and silk I 1 lk the best means of fighting the cod 6 d ling moth Is to spray the apple treba three times each season with a mixture oc of arsena nr senate teof of lead and lime sulphur |