The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-10-21
Colling Moths.

These insects, known scientifically as
tarp0c0pSG Don,OHeIta, appear to have
accompanied the cultivated apple to
every part of,the known world where il
Is grown. The apple worm is the cat
Ssaslar Ola small grayish moth the
fofeowings of which are of brownish
color, crossed by numerous gray and
brown lines, with an oval dark brown
spot near the hinder augle minutely
edged with bright copper color The
head and thorax are gray. the hinder
wings and abdomen yellowish brown.
The moths appear in the Northern
States about the first of June; in lower
iatitades somewhat earlier. The fe
males drop an egg in the calyx or
blossom end of the fruit; in about q
week 1t reaches the core, where it feeds
for about a month, seldom longer
When fully grown the caterpillar is of
pinkish or flesh color, and, ii the APP
pie be cut open, may be seen in some
one of its burrows, from which it quick
" escapes. If not disturbed it will
bore hole from the center of the fruit
TO the surface, escaping either before or
after it has fallen TO the ground, which
usually happens soon after the caterpil-
/. lar has reached the core, becoming
what is usually called a windfall. The
caterpillar after reaching the ground
craWls away into some sheltered place,
usually in the cracks of the same tree
upon the fruit of which it has been
feeding, and there spins ~ thin cocoon.
an which its -puparemains a few weeks
or months, depending, upon the season
infwhich they, have, appeared. for 10 is
now settled that in Some Sections there
are two broods of this insect in sea-
son. The first or spring brood pass
through their four stages, egg, larva,
pupa and image, the latter copulate, and
the females deposit eggs on fruit late
in the season, the caterpillars
produced therefrom being Matched
in the winter varieties from
which many do not escape until the APP
] pies are barrelled and sent to market,
or stored away in cellars. The cocConS
or silken cases, containing the pupn,
arc often found attached to the emptied
barrels or hidden away in fruit rooms.
or cellars. These are from the second
brood. For a long time it was sup
posed that the caterpillar spent its en-
q tire larva period in the fruit wherein
the egg was deposited, but several OBJ
have detected it passing from one aD-
pie to another One Of the most care.
ful students of the habits of this insect,
Mr.. S. B. Peck, of Muskcgon, Mich
writes on this point as follows; ti.oI
M Experiments have been made by my
self and others with the following re-
suits: The larvae have repeatedly been
placed in contact with sound apples,
and soon found inside; they enter more
readily when shut from the light Some
twenty Infected apples taken from the
(, ee have been placed in box with a
few sound ones, when, after an interval
: ORA day or Two, the sound ones have
been occupied by the larvae. A nearly
fukgrown. larya has been shut up with
VRsoundapple, one anda quarfer inches
in diameter, and in less tlian twenty
efour. hours Was found inside with tile
S2fple core demolished, showing that it
DOGS not take a fellow long to- Use up a
sspecimen. A larva was also discovered
in itstpassage from one apple 10 an
other, The two being in contact, and
several cases have occurred where q
passage between apples in contact has
evidently been made by one occupant
1.-THE observations and experiments
thus related have been confined to the
early part of the season and to the first
brood Of larvae, not surprising that the
emigration continued after the frat
was nearly ripe; but it is. now ascer-
tanned that they do emigrate after the
fruit has been gathered and, stored.
B. Now, these discoveries and myestiga-
tons are, not1merels ogratfy curiosity
but they openaa newand more. SUCCESS
Jul mode of ,Rarlares niQr,- if true, the
daily picking off the infected fruit and
sits destruction~ isNat eneeusp ggest eet as
( the most elli& ent renfed \, -ahd we may
have hopes that with This ana the band
ase system we ,rrustlbeg ahlgtq ysYga
portion OF our crop, if not eventually
10 ipd out this nsidfous pest" 4 Il
1.-The szba ndaae system 4 refe rredz to
nbove, is the one most generany u ea
for destroying the cooling moths. aIt
consists IN Winding about the stem of
the tree, a few feet fgpm the ground,
some kind<ofl soft doth. Ihe caterpil-
lars thatAhava fallen fromSor with The
fruit as they ascend the tree in search
coons lind heHesone appare4tly adapted
for their own purpose, preferable even
Ss ID ~ innieiiaalE dsnsmebee TsasE
WORK. sf'hese bantlsa carf be readik exe
amined every few days, and all cater