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Owocówka jabłkóweczka
This causes "robaczywienie" apples and pears. Adult insect is a small butterfly night, with a wingspan of up to 18 mm. The first generation of butterflies first appear in late May or early June, ie just after the flowering of trees, a mass when the fruit reach the size of zawiązki hazelnut. The female lays about 100 eggs per fruit, less frequently on the leaves. After 6-12 days (depending on temperature) and the caterpillars hatch wgryzają to zawiązków fruit on the side, by the cup or less close to the szypułce. Young band is very sensitive and often die because of adverse climatic conditions. Gąsienica wygryza corridor in pulp chambers of the seed and eats seeds. Sometimes the full cycle of development takes place in a single fruit, but generally wygryza second side of the corridor and go fruit. Searches for the fruit and then a second wgryza him well in the side. Caterpillar reaches a length of an adult from 15 to 20 mm, and the fruit comes out of the yarn nitce to send down to the ground, and then seeks refuge in a tree on the tree bark spękaniach. The first caterpillar tracks in the south of the country of hiding places to escape in July, przepoczwarczają and later in the year wylatują butterflies to place the eggs, which is developing second generation owocówki. In the north country, and also in greater part in the Podkarpackie, has only one generation. Caterpillars in August and September are looking for hiding places where the winter, przepoczwarczając only in spring.