Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-20
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
Items of Interest for the Farmer and Who Believes
In Progress and Improvement.

ncy remain IN the pupa state IL
days, at the end of which time they
come out and open the end of their
cocoon still in the pupa state.
The moth energies almost immed-
lately and flies away.
When the end of the cocoon is.
opened by the worm the day before
it is transformed into the pupa state
this point is left unprotected, and
natural enemy often goes into
the cocoon at this point. AS the
worm is stupid, the enemy either
kills the worm at once or eats it up
later when it is in the pupa state.
This natural enemy looks some
thing like the worm itself; but it
has flatter body with only six
legs which are near the head and
which are fully twice as long as
those of the worm. In color it is
much darker than the worm, es-
pcCially its head, whose snapper
like mouth reminds one of a lob
ster's claw. 1t moves over the sur
face five or six times as fast as a
worm. l have found this natural
enemy in only one orchard, which
is two-acre orchard of apple trees
about thirty years old, which has
never been sprayed for codling moth.
These natural enemies during the
past season have destroyed hundreds
of worms in this orchard.
l find that there are four different
colored moths. The black moth is
larger, of slightly lighter color,
with large reddish brown spot on
the back between the head and
wings. There are also a male and
female of bright golden color, al
though there seems to be only one
fourth as many of these as of the
darker colored ones. The small
worms are the females and the big.
long ones are the males.
put mosquito bar over tree
and fastened it well around the bod,
I of the tree so that / was able to
watch the working of the m Hers
found that the millers spent tn
. day in the thickest clusters O
! leaves where it was dark. Abou
! shutdown they seemed to be yer
/ busy flying around. l suppose tn
E eggs were being laid at this time
i My first millers were put under tn
+ net on July 10. In Is days tn
/ worms were going into the apple
\ and in 80 days they were comm
: out of the apples. From the 1
7 worms that came out of the apple
d on this tree, there was not on
f miller left. . This proves, to m
s way of thinking, that there ar
but two broo DIS of codling mot
|. in one season.
s The worms of the first brood 6
e into the apple from May l s to Sci
IS TENDER 1. BY this we may see thu
e the second brood would not ente
e the apples until the first part {
v November and would not pc mature
II until December.
q This fact was proved conclusive'
n because there were only two BROOD
e on the tree which was covered b
,e the mosquito bar and also by tt
closest observation of their worl
N ings in our own orchard last season
II AS for the worm coming dow
If its spinarette. l took IS worn
- from under the bands and out
,e apples and placed them on liml
J. Then l pushed them off with
pencil Out of all these not CT
lie reached the ground, as each OF
p caught itself on its spinarette b
he fore reaching the ground and elm
re ed back up on it to the limb. II
c. worm does this by holding on
is it's mouth while it throws its fro
ne feet upward and catches hol
ID then it lets go with its mouth al
Ne stretches up and catches hold
IN the web with it's mouth again.
this way it will climb one inch
r two minutes. A codling moth
in six legs near the head and Gig
us pro-legs near the in the center
ne the body, and two pro-legsa at t
I'd end of the body.
n If the trees are banded, strip
ne heavy cloth, and fuzzy, four inch
rs wide and three or four feet Ion
re according to the size of the lint
Nv should be used. The band shot
.ir not be put on flat. This makes
sh heater appearance but it coes I
es have the same effect. The ba
MS should be rolled around, so as
p eaten more worms. A band shot
ht be placed around each limb near'
X the trunk. In this way the VOL