The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-05-10
OdIing Moths

These insects, known scientifically as
CaypOcGpSa pWn0nelld. appear to have
accompanied the cultivated apple to
every part of the known world where it
is grown. The apple worm is the cat
erpillar of q small grayish moth, the
fore-wings of which are of brownish
color, crossed by numerous gray and
brown lines, with an oval dark brown
spot near the hinder angle infinitely
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
ATTITUDES somewhat earlier. The fe-
males drop an egg in the calyx or
blossom end of the fruit; in about a
week it reaches the core, where it feeds
for about month, seldom longer.
When fully grown the caterpillar is of
pinkish or flesh color, and, if the ap-
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 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.
In which its pupa remains a few weeks
Or months, depending upon the season
IN which they have appeared, for it is
cow settled that in some sections there
are two broods Of this insect in a sea-
son. The first or spring brood pass
through their four stages, egg, larva,
pupa andimago. the latter populate, 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 ap-
pies are barrelled and sent to market,
Or stored away in cellars. The cocCons
or silken cases, containing the pupR,
are often found attached to the emptied
barrels, or hidden away in fruit rooms
Or cellars. These are from the second
brood. For long time it was sup
posed that the caterpillar spent its en-
tire larva period in the fruit wherein
the egg was deposited, but several OBJ
servers, independently of each other,
have detected it passing from one ap-
pie to another One Of the most care
tul students of the habits of this insect,
Mr.. S. B. Peck, of Muskegon, Mich,
writes on this point as follows:
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 moro
readily when shut from the light. Some
twenty infected apples taken from the
tree have been placed in a box with a
few sound ones, when, after an interval
of day or two, the sound ones have
been occupied by the larvB A nearly
full-grown larva has been shut up with
sound apple. one and a quarter inches
in diameter, and in less than twenty
TOUR hours was found inside with the
whole core demolished, showing that it
does not take fellow long to use up
specimen. A larva was also discovered
in its passage from one apple to an
other. the two being in contact, and
several cases have occurred where a
passage. between annles In contact r