Science news articles about 'codling moths'

... ) has been the most used insecticide in apple production in the United States since the late 1960s, primarily as a control for the codling moth, but a decision by the EPA to phase out AZM ...

A cocktail of gaseous compounds emitted by a beneficial fungus may offer a way to biologically fumigate stored apples, ridding them of codling moth larvae.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have launched a preemptive strike to combat the false codling moth, a major pest in its native Africa.

... , which damage potato leaves and tubers, and apple codling moths, which feed inside apples. In fumigation ... to Muscodor killed 100 percent of cocooned codling moth larvae, which are especially difficult to control ...

... modified plants, or biological pest control. The moth with the scientific name Ostrinia nubilalis is native ... are especially useful when insecticides must be avoided, such as in control of codling moth in apple orchards, or trapping large ...