Our Common Insects Electronic Resource a Popular Account of the Insects of Our
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88), which Baron Osten Sacken refers doubtfully to the genus Lonchaaa. The Apple midge frequently does great mischief to apples after they are gathered. Mr. F. G. Sanborn states that uine- tenths of the apple crop in Wrentham, Mass. , were destroyed by a fly supposed to be the Molobrus mali, or Apple midge, described by Dr. A Fitch. "The eggs were sup- posed to have been laid in fresh apples, in the holes made by the Coddling- m o t h (Carpo- 88. Willow Blister fly. Capsapomo- nella), whence th...e larvae penetrated into all parts of the apple, working small cylindrical burrows about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter. " Mr. W. C. Fish has also sent me, from Sandwich, Mass. , specimens of another kind of apple worm, which he writes has been very common in Barnstable county. "It attacks mostly the earlier varieties, seeming to have a par- ticular fondness for the old fashioned Summer, or High-top APPLE WORMS. 83 Sweet. The larva? (Fig. 89 a) enter the fruit usually where it has been bored by the Apple worm (Carpocapsa), not uncom- monly through the crescent-like puncture of the curculio, and sometimes through the calyx, when it has not been troubled by other insects.
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