Researchers from Michigan State University’s Department of Entomology found that automated camera traps often detected codling moth activity in orchards several days earlier than standard monitoring ...

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, ...

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 codling ...

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 the “worm” ...

César Reyes Corral, graduate research assistant based at Wenatchee, Washington, holds petri dishes used to grow and study pathogens of tree fruit pests, including fungi that may be able to defend ...