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(_Carpocapsa pomonella_), a well-known orchard pest, which in our countries is usually single-brooded.
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The larvæ (Fig. 89 _a_) enter the fruit usually where it has been bored by the Apple worm (Carpocapsa), not uncommonly through the crescent-like puncture of the curculio, and sometimes through the calyx, when it has not been troubled by other insects.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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(Carpocapsa pomonella), whence the larvæ penetrated into all parts of the apple, working small cylindrical burrows about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter. "
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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