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Title: The Codling Moth
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: United States.: Division of Entomology
Subjects: Codling moth.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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Fig. 2—Apples Damaged by Unknown Caterpillar.(Reduced from photograph by the author.) Bui. 41, Div. of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agricultur Plate
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Eggs of the Codling Moth. Natural size of eggs at a and 6; e, showing red ring in egg: et, egg. showing the hole throughwhich the larva emerged: h. showing the egg enlarged, with the larva inside: . the end ofthe ovipositor of the female. (From Slingerland.) 17 or barrels. In many localities it has been the practice to return tothe fruit grower for refilling boxes in which fruit has been marketed.This practice has supplied the means of rapid distribution in suchocalities. If infested fruit is shipped any distance in cars the larvae spin theircocoons in cracks and holes in the walls of the car and may be carriedgreat distances before the moths emerge. This is thought to havebeen the source of the infestation at Kalispell, Mont. When apples are stored by commission houses the larva? may crawlinto boxes or cases of various kinds of merchandise and thus be widelydistributed. In sections where the orchards are near each other the spread isaccomplished by the moth flying from one to

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