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, ...

Losing your fruit to codling moth is a particular type of sadness. Codling moth is an introduced pest that lives on and in pome fruit: apples, pear and quince. They are nondescript and small — about ...

What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? Answer: Finding half a worm. Modern pesticides and strict inspection policies have made finding a codling moth larva, or worm, in an apple from a ...

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 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 ...

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Q. I’m a retired college professor. I garden organically with only moderate success. Most of the apples on my prolific tree have worm holes. Is there an organic strategy that would help? I cut around ...

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 ...