Codling Moth Definition

Codling Moth Sentence Examples

• In a single season Aberdeenshire suffered nearly 90,000 worth of damage owing to the ravages of the diamond back moth on the root crops; in New York state the codling moth caused a loss of $3,000,000 to apple-growers.

• The orchard has many varieties of apple growing well, untroubled by the codling moth which is usually a major pest in this country.

• A codling moth trap, for example, uses a pheromone placed on a sticky floor.

• Among other notable Lepidopterous pests are the " surface larvae " or cutworms (Agrotis spp.), the caterpillars of various Noctuae; the codling moth (Carpocapsa pomonella), which causes the maggot in apples, has now become a universal pest, having spread from Europe to America and to most of the British Colonies.