There are plenty of ways to help your apple trees thrive, such as pruning and choosing the right fertilizer. But what if your apples are turning brown and mushy before they're even ripe? Codling moths ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Researchers want to use bug-hunting fungi to protect orchards from pests such as codling moth, a major problem for apples, pears and walnuts. Scientists are growing three species of fungi at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each week for the past three months Christopher Adams, a professor at Oregon State University, has released upward of 4,000 codling moths into the Columbia Gorge’s fertile orchards. The drab, ...

M3 Agriculture Technologies has secured a $1 million federal grant to develop an X-ray-based approach to insect pest management. The company will conduct a project on the use of X-rays instead of ...