…but the chemical also was phytotoxic to the fruit at doses that are phytosanitary. To avoid fruit injury, the fruit had to be wax coated before poststorage treatment to protect…

…with lavender essential oil. This should occur both through the repelling of ovipositing moths and the repelling of newly hatched larvae searching for fruit. Mated female codling moths were released…

…the hand-applied dispensers for leafrollers and/or codling moth. Moth catches and fruit injury varied widely among blocks yet mean moth catches and percent fruit injury did not differ from surrounding…

PROJECT NO: ARS TITLE: Assessing Codling Moth Overwintering Mortality YEAR INITIATED: 1999-2000 PERSONNEL: Tom Unruh, Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS Yakima John Dunley, Entomologist, WSU-TFREC, Wenatchee Objectives: 1. Describe the distribution of…