The acquisition of insecticide resistance has given one of the best opportunities to assess microevolution processes, partly because the nature of the selective agent is well identified and partly ...

As a Peace Corp volunteer in Malawi, Tim Vandervoet developed a passion for using agriculture and science as a tool for social change - reducing insecticide use through more biological control of ...

If caterpillars are eating your apples, they are almost certainly the larvae of the codling moth (Cydia pomonella). This is North America’s most important insect pest of apples, both in commercial ...

The first phase of codling moth control I recommend is to thin the apple crop. Apples produce fruit in clusters. When the small apples are from dime to quarter size, thin the fruit to one per cluster.

Confirm 240F, a crop insecticide for use against cabbage loopers, codling moth, European corn borer and other pests, now has a new Canadian distributor. The Canadian wing of Arizona ag chem firm Gowan ...

Moths are among the most feared invasive insect pest species. They are the major damaging pests of annual and perennial fibre and food crops, forest products and stored food commodities throughout the ...