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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 ...

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 ...

We have been getting a lot of calls about when to spray for codling moths. The answer is, not yet. My apple trees in Rigby are barely at the silver tip stage. Last year, codling moths were late ...

There's hope that a parasitic wasp from Kazahkstan could wipe out codling moth in Australia. Codling moth, which looks like a small grub, eats through pears and apples and costs the industry about $5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite hanging up a pheromone trap in my apple tree last spring, my crop was riddled with codling moth larvae. I think the traps lured the bugs to breed in my apples instead of killing them. What can ...

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, ...

In The Countryside: Rex Hancy looks at how the dreaded codling moth was tackled in times gone by. I do not for one minute believe the codling moth was more prevalent this year. It just so happens that ...