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.

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 ...

Home orchardists have learned to slice apples before taking a bite, knowing that inside our homegrown apples critters could be lurking in the safe haven of the core. Damage is often not visible from ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The image seems innocuous enough: the classic worm-in-the-apple cartoon. In reality, the highly narrativized codling moth can destroy 80 percent to 90 percent of an apple crop within one to two years ...

Thousands of sterile codling moths are being dropped by drone onto central Hawke's Bay apple orchards to help wipe out the destructive wild population of the pest. Mr Apple technical manager Robbie ...

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 ...

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 ...