Codling Moth

Carpocapsa pomonella. Adult moth is nocturnal, half inch acro wings; fore wings gray with wavy brown lines and bronzed area, hind wings brown. Eggs (50) laid on blo om end of apple; larva on hatching bores into fruit and grows to in. in twelve days. In a month bores out of side of fruit, crawls into a crevice of bark of tree, where it transforms into adult. Second brood larvæ spend winter in apple. Originally from Europe. Also infests pear, etc. Spray with 1 lb. Paris green to 200 gal. water at time of fall of bloom, repeat few days later. A bandage about tree gathers cocoons that may be destroyed from week to week.