The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-08-18
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Facts IN the Natural History of the Apple
Worm.-A small miller (or moth) makes its
appearance in the evenings of the month of
June, and deposits its eggs in the calyx of
the young fruit. 1t is of brown color, re-
sembling watered silk brown oval spot
near the hinder edge of each front wing
marks this moth as distinct from all others.
Its wings expand about three-fourths of an
inch. 1t never lays its eggs in the plum, as
some have supposed it to do. The plum has
no calyx in which it may deposit them. 1t
does not pierce the fruit. But the egg is
soon hatched into a minute worm, which
eats its way into the apple, consuming its
substance, and causing it pfematurely TO
decay and fall from the bough When the
apple falls to the ground, the worm finds its
way to the inside of the rough bark of the
tree, or to some other contiguous shelter,
where it spins its cocoon, passes through its
transformations, and comes forth moth or
commonly the next spring 10 deposit its eggs,
as its parent did, and to multiply and per-
petuate it's kind. Its instincts guide it to
the earliest fruit. Hence those apples which
ripen first, are most infested with the worm.
Modes of checking or preventing the rava-
ges of the Apple Worm.
l. Let swine run in the orchard, when the
injured fruit is falling. They will eat the
diseased apples, worms and all. More than
this, they will dig the ground for the worms,
if they have left the fruit, and are in the
ground. But this course cannot always be
pursued. When it cannot, them
g. Gather the falling fruit early every day.
and give it ait once to the swine or cattle, to
be eaten Or boil it soon and feed it TO the
animals at your leisure. In this way, the at
ia cks of the little pests may be held in check.
3. Destroy the hiding places of the worm.
Keep the trees smooth, and the notches of
the branches clear of all rough bark We
have frequently, within the last few days,
found the worms under the outer bark, or
under the leather which had been placed
round the tree to protect its bark from the
chord with which it had been tied, to keep
it erect. 1t is said also that, if old clothes
are tied around the tree, the worms will find a
hiding place in their folds. The clothes may
then be removed and the worms destroyed
4. The millers themselves may be attacked
with some success, by placing pitch torches
under the trees at night, when the milers
are flying. They will fly into the flame and
be destroyed.
D. Ii smoulderlng fires are Kept under the
trees, when the millers are flying, and if a
thick smoke envelope the trees, the millers
are said to retire in great disgust. They fly
from the smoke, and the fruit is saved. They
are attracted to the flame, and are destroyed.
BY the diligent use of some or all of these
methods, the watchful orchardist may keep
in check if not destroy, the apple worm in
his grounds. But if his neighbors have Or
chards, or fruit trees near by, he must secure
their cooperation, or his exertions will be
almost frutless. To drive the millers away
from one tree, and leave them undisturbed at
the next one in the same row, is labor almost
thrown away; so to destroy them up to your
own boundary, while your neighbors trees,
only ten yards distant, are swarming with
worms, which will take wing when the
spring opens, and shower their eggs over a
whole neighborhood, will prove to be of lit