Identifier: transactionsofco112conn (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Subjects: Science Humanities
Publisher: New Haven : Published by the Academy
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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t use of kerosene and of chloride of lime on alldecaying or infected matter is very useful against flies and their larvae. Forfurther details, see L. 0. Howard, Farmers Bulletin, No. 155, U. S. Dejjt. Agric,1902 ; and Year Book, U. S. Dept. Agriculture, for 1901, pp. 177-192. A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 743 Peach-fly; Peach-maggot. (Ceratitis capitata Wied., as Trypeta.)Figure 92. This small fly, whose larva lives in the flesh of the peach, orange,and other fruit, is very destructive. Its ravages have caused thecultivation of the peach, formerly abundant, to be almost entirelyabandoned. This peach-pest was first recorded from Bermuda by Messrs. C.V. Riley and L. O. Howard* from specimens sent to them by C. W.McCallan of St. Georges, with an account of its ravages. Thearticle cited gives a pretty full historical account of the insect andexcellent figures of the fly and its larva. In the same volume, p.120, they print another letter from Mr. McCallan, dated Aug. 6, 1890, 90 92
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Figure 90.—Onion-fly; a, larva, uat. size; b, the same, enlarged; c, imago,enlarged 3 times; after Packard. Figure 92.—Peach-fly (Ceratitis capi-tata) ; a, imago ; b, larva, both x 3; after Riley. From Websters Inter-national Dictionary. giving farther details of its habits. According to him, it was notthen known to injure oranges and other citrus fruits in Bermuda,though it does so in other countries, but it was very destructive to thepeaches, the larvae boring in the pulp in large numbers and causingthe fruit to fall. He says that the same or a similar larva attackedthe loquat and Surinam cherry in the same way. He also mentionedfinding the fly on the leaves and fruit of the lime, and on grapevines. He states that they had then been known in Bermuda forabout 25 years. In Madeira, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands, Malta,Mauritius, etc., a fly, supposed to be the same species (described byMacleay, 1829, as C. citriperda), is very destructive to oranges,causing them to fall when abou

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