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 you found yourself with a harvest of wormy apples and pears last fall, then you have codling moth. By the time you see the damage, typically at harvest, it is too late to protect that year’s crop.
For some reason, the apple blooms seem to be particularly abundant this year. Even the old farm trees I see along Chester Creek seem to be full of blooms. Unfortunately, between the beauty of the ...
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, ...
A: Codling moths are the bane of many a home orchardist in Bay Area yards with warm summers. They infest apples, pears, quince, walnuts and sometimes plums or other stone fruit. What a mess they make ...
Now is the season to start control of codling moths. If you have apple, pear or even peach trees, in whose fruit you’ve found pinkish-white “worms” with dark heads, those are offspring of codling ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s spring and the fruit trees are about to bloom. It’s time to start planning how to reduce the chance that you will have to share your apples with codling moths and apple maggots. I’ll cover the ...
BOULDER COUNTY – Gardeners who plant apple trees are hopeful souls, putting in saplings as they dream of future pies, sauce, and tarts. With each season of growth, we croon encouragement at the plant.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Jun., 1928), pp. 147-163 (17 pages) Thermal constants for beginning emergence and maximum emergence of the overwintered generation and ...