"Stink bugs, in particular the brown marmorated stink bug, can be devastating to tree fruit,” says Blaauw. These pests feed ...

Unfortunately, trees up to a half mile away with uncontrolled codling moth will serve as reservoirs for the insect, making it harder to protect your trees.

Two insects tend to be the most prevalent pests in our area’s fruit trees: the codling moth (apples) and the western cherry fruit fly (cherries). Both create “wormy” fruit, and both, once ...

Timing the application of insecticides for codling moth control is difficult. Products must be applied just as the eggs are hatching, but before the caterpillars go into the fruit. According to ...

It’s too late to apply insecticides for codling moth control this year. Concentrate on good sanitation by disposing of infected fruit off-site.

I’ll cover the codling moth this week and apple maggot in next week’s column Adult moths are about half to three quarters of an inch long with mottled-gray wings tipped with coppery brown.

The codling moth, a nonnative insect, destroys up to 10 percent of the crop in some walnut orchards.Photo by Seabrooke Leckie (Flickr/Creative Commons).

Codling Moth Control: Most insecticides function as larvicides, which means the insecticide kills the codling moth larvae following egg-hatch (and hopefully before they enter the fruit).

(i) Which evolutionary scenario may have led to chemical control failure in south-eastern France? (ii) How would the selected resistance genes behave in natural codling moth populations?

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 ...

A bioengineered oilseed plant can produce a moth sex pheromone molecule used to control insect pests. Pheromones are chemical signals that cause a behavioural response in members of the same or ...

Sunflower is a native plant in the High Plains region and as a result, sunflower insect pests are also native. These insect pests feed and survive on both wild and domestic (cultivated) sunflower ...