Hey all,
I live on around 6 acres which includes an apple tree that is…well, gigantic!
It produces many, many, many apples every year, and I've tried a couple of things I've learned from the internets to get rid of the pest responsible for the holes pictured.
I've tried the molasses/water trick as I thought it was the coddling moth, and this year I went for pesticides after petalfall.
Does anyone have any insight into what the pest in question might be, and what a solid countermeasure might look like next year?
Oh, and the apples are actually really good!
Thank you for reading!
by Which_Highlight_8849
11 Comments
Are those bird damage spots?
Me, i’d feel those pieces to my animals.Well, I cut the apples up to make pie or dehydrate
Im not seeing the telltale apple moth poop trail thing.
Sure its not birds?
I don’t know what to tell you, but I’m dealing with the same thing. Frankly this is the first year I’ve had a big enough apple crop to notice issues on the fruit. Hell, last year I celebrated getting a handful before the squirrels did… Apples are hard man đ
Still good n tasty
Codling moth. They go from apple to apple when they’re cloth together.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codling_moth
Codling moth
I think those are bird pecks
Plant pears
Nothing fucks with my pears. Except my dogs and chickens but they donât go super high, so there is plenty to go around
(Idk about the apples, mine get fucked up too)
You know whatâs worse than biting into an apple and finding a wormâŠ. Biting into an apple and finding HALF a worm! đ€Ł
Spray
Still good, never bothered with doing anything