• Caterpillar bore into the fruits and feed on the pulp
• Infested leaves and fruits show tunnels with frass

Identification of the pest:

• Larva : Pinkish-white caterpillar with black or mottled black head
• Adult : small greyish moth, chocolate brown patches near the tip of foreswings

Management:

• Field sanitation
• Collect and destroy the infested fruits and cocoons
• Banding - corrugated cardboard bands should be applied to tree trunks
• Use sex pheromone trap
• Mass trap males with codling moth lure traps
• Release egg parasitoids, Trichogramma embryophagum at 2000/tree
• Apply Virosoft CP4 Granulovirus
• Apply acetempride (4 application per season) during egg laying stage

• Codling moth larvae must eat the virus before they enter the fruit