What's eating my apples?

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What's eating my apples?
« on: June 05, 2009, 12:10 »
Best ever crop from my five year old tree and half of them have holes in with dark stuff oozing out.  Tried googling but can't find a match.  Does anyone know what it is please?

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Re: What's eating my apples?
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2009, 12:29 »
Had a check in my bumper book of apple fun, and it could be lots of things, but none say that there is any gunge oozing out of the fruit.

Would it be worth removing one fruit and cutting it across the hole to see if a bug is in there munching. Guess it would give a better idea of what your up against if we knew it was a bug, not a virus or fungal type disease

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Re: What's eating my apples?
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2009, 12:33 »
The apple in the centre has the goo and the dark stuff on the leaf below it is also goo.  Removed as many as I could find, about 70% of my crop lost.  There were little moths flying away and definately a larvae inside the apple.  Barstewards. >:(

Only ever had powdery mildew on it before.  I hate this learning curve, can someone please straighten it.

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Re: What's eating my apples?
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2009, 12:37 »
Sounds like codling moth at work.

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Re: What's eating my apples?
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2009, 12:39 »
I've removed the apples and doused the tree in bug killer.  If it is codling moth is it too late to do anything this year?

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Re: What's eating my apples?
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2009, 12:53 »
if it is codling, according to the text book its early - july/august is the danger period . tortix moth is may/june and leaves tunneling holes...treatment for all of them appears to be fenitronthion (I'd put money on it being a banned sunstance if I had any spare!).
Spraying is the treatment given - mid June and three weeks later, so you might be lucky with the crop left.

Such a pain isn't it? hope you still have some crop to enjoy. What sort of tree is it - the young fruits all look the same on mine at this early stage

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Re: What's eating my apples?
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2009, 12:58 »
It's definately codling moth.  Just found a site that shows it clearly and describes the goo oozing out too.  Darn it, something else to worry about.

The tree is a dwarf James Grieve and the apples are lovely.


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