CODLING MOTH CONTROL IN PEARS, 2004

Chemical Control / New Products Evaluation of Confirm for Codling Moth and Leafroller Control in Pears

A. Full Season Evaluation of Confirm for Coding Moth Control Methods and Materials A study was conducted in a commercial 'Bartlett' pear orchard in Hood, CA. Three unreplicated treatments of ca. five acres each were applied using an air-blast speed sprayer operating at 1.75 mph and applying 100 gal of finished spray per acre. The three treatments were: Confirm 2F applied four times, Confirm 2F ...

Classical Biological Control of Codling Moth: the California Experience

Codling moth is a notorious fruit-boring pest that has extended its original distribution from the natural apple forests of Central Asia to cover all apple growing regions of the world. Having been discovered in California as early as 1872, codling moth has continued to be the dominant pest of apple, pear and walnut production causing extensive damage in the absence of insecticide treatment. In...

Study of Factors Affecting Codling Moth Control by Mating Disruption

This year was the first year of a multiyear project to examine a. number of factors associated with the chemistry of codling moth mating disruption. A substantial portion of time and manpower was involved in building the apparatus required for the project and developing and troubleshooting methods required for the duration of the project. We are about three months behind schedule; we hope to ha...

Codling moth management and chemical ecology.

Lepidopteran insects use sex pheromones to communicate for mating. Olfactory communication and mate-finding can be prevented by permeating the atmosphere with synthetic pheromone. Pheromone-mediated mating disruption has become a commercially viable pest management technique and is used to control the codling moth, Cydia pomonella, a key insect pest of apple, on 160,000 ha worldwide. The codlin...

Codling Moth Areawide Integrated Pest Management