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, ...

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, ...

EXCERPT: Drape netting controls codling moth, but it can trigger an outbreak of aphids if their predators are also blocked by ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) -Mesa County is highlighting a pest that could turn your apple pie sour. The Upper Grand Valley Pest Control District, CSU Tri-River Extension Office and Mesa County are ...

Q: I have had wormy apples in my Honeycrisp apple tree. Last year, I had the same problem. I was told to spray a fungicide. I also sprayed neem oil. I waited until the apples started to form. I still ...

Two insects tend to be the most prevalent pests in our area’s fruit trees: the codling moth (apples) and the western cherry fruit fly (cherries). Both create “wormy” fruit, and both, once the “worm” ...

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 ...

Everyone is familiar with the “worm in the apple”, but gardeners need to know the worm is the immature stage of the codling moth. Codling moth is present in apples and pears throughout Idaho in ...

We successfully created mass confusion again in a small part of Missoula this summer. Using mating disruption to confuse male codling moths so they couldn't find female moths, we kept 200 apple trees ...

In the late 1990s, scientists from the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture were working in south Africa on a programme to help table grape exporters apply the sterile ...

Moths are among the most feared invasive insect pest species. They are the major damaging pests of annual and perennial fibre and food crops, forest products and stored food commodities throughout the ...