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Codling moth

noun
1.
A small grey moth whose larvae live in apples and English walnuts.  Synonyms: Carpocapsa pomonella, codlin moth.






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"Codling moth" Quotes from Famous Books



... varieties being worked on blight-resistant stocks, there is very little American blight (woolly aphis). Scale insects do a certain amount of damage, but are easily kept in check by winter spraying, and codling moth is not bad unless grossly neglected, many orchards being quite free from this great pest of the apple-grower. So far, the growing of apples has been confined entirely to the growing of fruit for the local markets, no attempt having ...
— Fruits of Queensland • Albert Benson



Words linked to "Codling moth" :   tortricid moth, tortricid, Carpocapsa, genus Carpocapsa



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