Apple Maggots - They're Back!........

[FB.]

I recently found quite a few fruitlets with maggot holes in them (presumed to be Codling moth). I snipped them off and threw them in the fire.

Certain varieties of apples seem more attractive to the maggots and although I have my "ideas" as to which apples suffer the most, I will be keeping a record on this thread.

The varieties that I grow, which I plan to allow to fruit this year, in alphabet order and the percentage of fruits or fruitlets damaged by maggots:
First number is the amount of fruit/fruitlets "holed" by maggots in the first week of May.
Each following number will be the approximate cumulative number of fruitlets damaged by the end of the second week of May...and so on.
Numbers will be approximated to about the nearest 5%.

Annie Elizabeth 0%
Ashmead's Kernel 0%
Bountiful 0%
Cockle Pippin 0%
Court Pendu Plat (bush) 0%
Court Pendu Plat (cordon) 0%
Crawley Beauty 0%
D'Arcy Spice (standard) 0%
D'Arcy Spice (half standard) 0%
D'Arcy Spice (bush) 0%
D'Arcy Spice (cordon) 0%
Discovery (fan) 0%
Discovery (bush) 0%
Discovery (half standard) 0%
Egremont Russet 0%
Ellison's Orange 10%, 30%, 35%
Golden Delicious 0%
Golden Russet 0%
Grenadier 0%
James Grieve 0%
Laxton Superb 0%
Meridian 0%
Norfolk Beefing 0%
Pinova 0%
Red Devil 0%
Red Pippin 0%
Reverend Wilks 0%
Saturn 0%
Scrumptious 10%, 30%, 35%
Spartan 0%
Tydeman's Late Orange 0%
Winston 0%
Worcester Pearmain 0%


I will update about once a week.

[Nicos]

eww...hmmmph...and I've just discovered winter moth caterpillars on our 'new' apple tree-tis a Rene Clochard...the 'beggars apple'

All caterpillars crushed so far!!!

.....advice on another thread would be wonderful please!!!

[divvy]

I posted a week ago that I had found a caterpiller on my apple tree . iIhave put the coddling moth traps up as they say do that from May to Sept . I think It was too late .The tree I found it on was an Egremont Russet . Nothing on my Discovery or Braeburn . I have since found another one and just squash them . They are eating the leaves and are small white maggots or caterpillers . Do you think these are coddling moth . I have never seen them before as new to fruit trees .I will keep checking each day for more .

[FB.]

I posted a week ago that I had found a caterpiller on my apple tree . iIhave put the coddling moth traps up as they say do that from May to Sept . I think It was too late .The tree I found it on was an Egremont Russet . Nothing on my Discovery or Braeburn . I have since found another one and just squash them . They are eating the leaves and are small white maggots or caterpillers . Do you think these are coddling moth . I have never seen them before as new to fruit trees .I will keep checking each day for more .

If the caterpillars are eating the leaves, they probably aren't Codling moth - Codling's tunnel into the fruits and feed on the core of the apple.
Unless the leaf-eating caterpillars are causing a very serious problem, I leave them; birds and various types of wasps will dispose of them.

[divvy]

There are no holes in the fruitletts and I can't see anymore caterpillers . I hope they were just ordinary caterpillers and not coddling moth . I don't know the difference .

[FB.]

Codling's won't be interested in the leaves. Their sole purpose in life, is to be the half-maggot that ends up in your mouth, after biting into a home-grown apple.
It's also perhaps a bit early for codling moths, in many parts of the country.

[FB.]

In the last few days, lots of small eggs have appeared in clusters, hidden in small cracks in the bark and especially any cracks on the underside of where branches meet the main stem. I am presuming that they are Codling moth eggs.
Several of my bushes/cordons have hundreds - perhaps thousands - of these eggs. The remainder of my apples remain clear, after a brief inspection (although I may update this post if I find some that I missed earlier).
In the name of science, I'm going to let nature take it's course and see whether the crops soon get "holed" by maggots (to confirm the codling moth variety-preferences) - at which point, I will remove the fruitlets and burn them, before the codling larvae leave the apples to pupate.

The impending hatch out, likely to occur within a few days:

Crawley Beauty: heavy infestation
Meridian: moderate infestation
Scrumptious: light infestation
James Grieve: a few eggs
Egremont Russet: a few eggs

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False alarm!
I scraped off a few to examine with a magnifying glass indoors. They are not Codling eggs.