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.

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 ...

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 ...

If you have apple trees and want to monitor codling moth activity to determine the best time to spray, use a pest trap. The lure or bait in the trap duplicates the female codling moth’s pheromone ...

Now that apple trees are finishing blooming, it’s time to consider how to handle codling moth and apple maggot so you don’t end up with wormy apples. Codling moth adults are about 3/4 inch long with ...

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 ...

To keep the caterpillars out of your crop there are a few tricky things you can do. The first thing is to employ a codling moth pheromone trap. This often triangular contraption has a sticky base and ...

Codling moths are a common pest of apples and plums, producing the maggots that invade the fruit later in the summer. But if you hang codling moth traps in your trees now, you may stem the problem ...

SEVERAL recent papers have compared the effectiveness of bait and light traps as means of estimating changes in adult codling moth populations and of timing the application of sprays 1–3. The ...

Avocado farmers in Meru County are using solar-powered traps to combat the false codling moth (FCM), a destructive pest that threatens export markets. These solar traps use blue light to attract and ...

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 ...

Codling moth caterpillars in apples are a real nuisance. The young caterpillars tunnel straight into the developing tiny apple and consume the growing fruit and seeds that form inside. It's not nice ...