Apple tree pest control

If you are noticing brown spots on the skin of your apples, it is likely that the fruit of your apple tree has been infested with a worm. The worms are caused by fruit flies that fly around your apple tree laying eggs inside the skin of the fruit.

Apple worms, the ones you bite into while eating an apple, (or pear), are the larvae of the codling moth. They can ruin a large amount of your fruit when it

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Last year, a lot of my apple crop and some of my pear crop were infested with codling moth larvae. Given that I don’t spray my trees, I needed to come up with an alternative for control, unless I wanted to grow apples for the moths. This season, I’ve sprayed kaolin clay, which is a tiny clay particle that you spray on to the leaves and the fruit. This acts as an irritant to the pests, causing them to move on. This has worked well so far, as we’ve already had our best cherry harvest yet, and…

We planted a small orchard on our place about ten years ago and were delighted when it started to produce fruit

We planted a small orchard on our place about ten years ago and were delighted when it started to produce fruit