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Light Brown Apple Moth

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Posted by miketrees (My Page) on
Sat, Apr 12, 08 at 1:48

It seems this little moth is causing some concern in the US.
I spent last night looking for some here in Australia where it is meant to live. I could not find one in my light traps.
I would love to hear from anyone in the US that knows anything about them.

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RE: Light Brown Apple Moth

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Not certain what sort of info you're looking for.

But this pest was recently found in a number of counties in California.

And because Oregon is just north of California, folks here are on alert.

Here's some info from the university of California
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/lbam.html

Here is a link that might be useful: little brown apple moth

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Thanks Jean
I guess I just wanted to check out what was happening on the ground.
I was working for a chap that was using SIT (sterile Insect Technique)to control moths.
We wanted to ready for any quarantine incursion that might happen here and we were using LBAM as our target pest so we would have some idea how moths respond.
It was just a bit of good luck that we have been doing some work on our native moth that is now a pest for you.
The results of the trial work are not all finished yet, but it looks promising.
Oregon would probably be LBAM heaven, from what I have seen here, a bit cooler and wetter than California.
In one of our glasshouses set at about 25DegC the moths just cleaned up grapes, roses, olives,verbena, plums ,apples and even the weeds.
I believe this moth will just about eat anything including pine needles.
I doubt you will be able to quarantine this moth to California so it will be eradication or surrender.
There must be some natural predators here tho because we are finding it hard to catch them in the wild.
In two weeks time I am going to set light traps in an orchard that has been sprayed for fruit fly over the summer.
I believe the fruit fly sprays may have killed off some predators and we may find some moths there.
In my own orchard I did no spraying yet found no moths.
We might get some clues as to what predates them by comparing the sprayed to non sprayed orchard.

 
 

 

 


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