THE CODLIN MOTH.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5313, 7 October 1885, Page 2

THE CODLIN MOTH.

A Waimea correspondent of the Nelson EveimigMail. writes as follows:— "Take raupo heads, leaving' eighteen inches of stem on. Soak the head in common fat. In the moth season on still nights light the .heads, and,stick them on their end in the ground throughout the orchard.' A\gopd sized head will burn an hour, with a grand flame. This will kill moths in hundreds. Cost nominal." .

Another method of destroying this pest is given by a writer in «* VxcVs Magazine." It is as follows:— In my practice I have discovered how ro destroy easily this insect in such numbers that it is no longer a pest ; but I have never made this method known outside the circle in which I live. I was instructed by a(friend to place sweetened water on the stand to catch the bee moth. I did so, and .went" the next morning and found six motiis, but' on examination they proved to be codlin moth I then determined to try an experiment to '; catch ■' sodlin moths, and in the evening a basin of sweetened water was hung on a limb of a harvest apple tree; to my joy and surprise I found, next morning the liquid in the basin completely covered with codlin moths. lat once ordered the tinsmith to make me thirty-five or forty basins, holding a trifle over a pint each; with wire bales by which to hang them up. The place selected to hang the basins should be open and easy '. of access. No mora liquid should be prepared than is needed for immediate use, for if kept long it will lose its ripe-apple or new cider smell and taste. For thirty or thirty-five basins take a gallon of rain water and sweeten it, and then add a little vinegar to give it aroma, for it is the ripeapple or cider smell that attracts the moths to their liquid graves. I think sorghum molasses is best for sweetening. The tune for commencing the use of the Jbath will depend on the season, somewhere from the Ist to the 15th of May, and it should be continued until July, when thVfijat brood 17U1 have been captured*

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