ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND THE CODLING MOTH

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...

PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, AND TOXICOLOGY Effects of Temperature and Controlled Atmospheres on Codling Moth Metabolism

Although controlled atmosphere temperature treatments are effective in controlling codlingmoth,Cydia pomonella (L.), in fruit, themechanismbywhich this combination treatment kills the larvae is unknown.Differential scanning calorimetrywas used to determine the effects of elevated temperatures, lowO2, andhighCO2 on themetabolic heat rate of Þfth-instar codlingmoths. TotalATP levels also were det...

Codling Moth Areawide Integrated Pest Management

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...

Monitoring oriental fruit moth and codling moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) with combinations of pheromones and kairomones

23 Experiments were conducted in North and South America during 2012-2013 to 24 evaluate the use of lure combinations of sex pheromones (PH), host plant volatiles 25 (HPV), and food baits in traps to capture the oriental fruit moth, Grapholita molesta 26 (Busck) and codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.) in pome and stone fruit orchards 27 treated with sex pheromones. The combination of the sex phe...