Symptoms of damage:
- Caterpillar bore into the fruits and feed on the pulp
- Infested leaves and fruits show tunnels with frass
Identification of the pest:
- Larva: Pinkish-white caterpillar with black or mottled black head
- Adult: small greyish moth, chocolate brown patches near the tip of foreswings
Management:
- Field sanitation
- Collect and destroy the infested fruits and cocoons
- Banding - corrugated cardboard bands should be applied to tree trunks
- Use sex pheromone trap
- Mass trap males with codling moth lure traps
- Release egg parasitoids, Trichogramma embryophagum at 2000/tree
- Apply Virosoft CP4 Granulovirus
- Codling moth larvae must eat the virus before they enter the fruit
- Spray DDVP 0.04%
- Apply acetempride (4 application per season) during egg laying stage
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Codling moth damage to apple |
Codling moth feeding site |
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Larva |
Adult |
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