IF YOU FOUND YOURSELF last summer and fall with a harvest of wormy apples and pears, then you have codling moth. By the time you see the damage, typically at harvest, it is too late to protect that ...

Did you have a large crop of apples this year, but they were all wormy? The damage was probably due to codling moth larvae that bore into the center of the fruit. Here’s how to help control the pest, ...

If caterpillars are eating your apples, they are almost certainly the larvae of the codling moth (Cydia pomonella). This is North America’s most important insect pest of apples, both in commercial ...

If you have fruit trees, now’s the time to be on the lookout for codling moths. This is the time of year — mid-March to early April — when the adult codling moth, a little grayish-brown lepidopteran, ...

Several years ago, my husband and I started growing our tree fruits organically because we wanted to avoid using chemicals. Bill and I grow plum, cherry, apple and pear trees. Plums are a gardener’s ...

Though I grow 41 varieties of apples, some years I have very few apples to harvest. It is not because of poor fruit set but because apple maggot flies destroy most of them. At last there is an ...

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IF YOU BITE into an apple and notice half a caterpillar smiling back at you, the extra protein is compliments of a codling moth. If, on the other hand, you’re greeted by the smiles of several ...

What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Answer: Finding half a worm. Modern pesticides and strict inspection policies have made finding a codling moth larva, or worm, in an apple from a ...

HAMILTON – Using weather data collected at the Western Agriculture Research Center and codling moth captures around the valley, local agronomists have bumped up the date to spray against codling moths ...

Organic apple farmers keep their fruit free of worms by spraying their trees with a naturally occuring virus. But insects in some orchards in Germany have developed ...