THE GOLDEN MOTH,

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2066, 3 October 1885, Page 2

THE GOLDEN MOTH,

[Xhson .M vi J V W\Mir\ c(iiics]niiHli!iit sends [\» tlio follow u.o : -" Tako i.iupn ho.ul-, lennitf t ijjiteen nicliun of stem on. H.uL tlio head in c<uninoii f»it. In the moth '■ca-on on •-till nights lif, r h(, tl)o liead 1 ., and stick thoin <m tluni end m the ground thioiiKhoiit the oiehard. A good si/.cd head will burn an hoiii, Aith a ri .ind iivme. This will kill moths iv hundicds. Cost nominal."

Another method of destroying this pp-,fc is gi\ en by a w liter in " ViclvH M.iguine, " It ii asfollou.s :—"1»: — "1» my practice I h.ne di-co\eied how to destroy e.i-ily this insect in Mich numbers tli.it it is no longer .1 p-^t ; but I have never made thus nutjiod known outride the circle in whicli I live. 1 was instructed by a friend to place sweetened witer on the boo stmd to c.itch tlie beo moth. I did so, and went tho nc\t morning and found six moths, but cm examination they proud to be codlm ni'ith. I thun detei'inmed to tiy an evpoinnentto en tell codliu moth*, and in the c /filing a bisin of sweetened water w.is hung on a limb of tho harvest apple trco ; to my joy and surprise I found next morning tho liquid in the basin was completely coveied with codliu moths. I at once oideied tho tinsmith to make me thiiy li\o or foifcy Imkuik, holding .1 tuflu over a pint ench, witli wiio bale* by winch tohanu them np. Tho place solect<»d to hang the basins should be open and easy of accost No moio lifjiud should be prepared than is needod tm injmeduito ii.se, for if kept long it will 1(imo its ripe-apple or now oidor smell and taste. Foi thnty or thiity.h\o basins take a gallon of r.nu water ami sweeten it, and thon add a little \iuegar to it the nroma, for it U tho npi-apple or cider Rinell that atti.icts the moth-> to their liquid (jiaves. I tlnnlc toighmn molasses is be*.t for swoetning. Tho time fur c-nn-moncing tho use of tho bath will depend on tho season, somowhore from the l.st to tho sth of May, .md it Miould be uontinnod until July, when tho first broud will have been captured.