Now is the season to start control of codling moths. If you have apple, pear or even peach trees, in whose fruit you’ve found pinkish-white “worms” with dark heads, those are offspring of ...

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 ...

Codling moths are one of the most common apple tree pests, and they can destroy a harvest. These are the best methods to get rid of them for good.

The codling moth (Cydia pomonella) is a highly problematic pest for fruit trees, predominantly apples and pears. The larvae of the codling moth eat and burrow their way into developing fruits and ...

The best preventative method for codling moths is to use pheromone traps to lure and capture the adults. These traps are hung in the trees a few weeks before the flower buds open.

If caterpillars are eating your apples, they are almost certainly the larvae of the codling moth (Cydia pomonella). This is North America’s most important insect pest of apples, both in ...

Codling moths begin mating as soon as the night time temperatures reach 62 degrees. Pheromone traps can be placed in the apple tree prior to the buds breaking.

Also pick up any fruit that falls. Codling moths are just as happy to live inside a fallen apple as one hanging on the tree. Dispose of these apples in a way that the larva are destroyed.

Apples that stay on the tree longest are the most heavily infested by codling moths. Apples harvested early are the least infested. Populations of this pest increase with each generation produced.

Amy Jo Detweiler, associate professor of horticulture at Oregon State University’s Extension Service, wants Central Oregon gardeners to be successful in growing fruit trees and managing an apple ...