| Show flo I 1 U HOW APPLE IS MOTH EATEN most serious enemy of all the five hundred different kinds of enemies Is codling moth M at h of all tile the different kinds of insects which attack the apple the fruits most serious enemy Is the codling moth it Is nothing unusual for fully one fourth of an apple crop to be ruined by the codling moth in new york state the value ot of the fruit destroyed in this way every year Is 18 estimated at over tile the codling moth passes the winter as a full grown caterpillar curled up in a tough silken cocoon under flakes of df bark or in crevices in the trees with the first warm days of spring the caterpillars begin to transform to dark brownish pupae about two weeks after the apple blossoms fall fail the pupae become moths their wings when e expanded x measure about three fourt fourths hs 0 of f an inch the average life of a moth Is about ten days and each female lays fr from 30 to eggs these hatch in ten i A codling moth worm burrowing its it way toward the core where it eats the seeds seed and hollows out a cavity days or less into little caterpillars whitish in color and about one six of an inch in length the little caterpillars live for a little littie while on the leavas but soon make their way to the young apples where they find the feeding they like best most of them enter the apples at the blossom end after feeding for a short time in the calyx cavity they burrow to the core eat the seeds and bollow out a large cavity which becomes filled with masses of waste matter and slik silk the best means of fighting the codling moths Is to spray the apple trees three times each season with a mixture of arsenate of lead and lime sulphur |
