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Spinosad vs. the Apple Codling Moth! Who will win?
This video shows how I used Spinosad spray to suppress the Apple Codling Moth which attacks my backyard apple tree every year.
It covers the time before the fruit has set until the end of the season when it's time to pick the apples.
I have a single apple tree in our backyard garden. It has three varieties grafted onto the trunk:
Gala, Fuji, and Red Delicious
The Galas are the best for eating and the Fuji are the best for baking.
The Red Delicious are required to pollinate the others (they aren't self-pollinating). At least that's what the nursery told me when I bought the tree.
The Red Delicious taste okay, but they never turn super red like the ones you see in the store, probably because they're being cross pollinated with the Fuji & Gala apples.
The Gala apples mature the earliest and are the most susceptible to the Codling moth. They're also my favorite apple!
I chose not use a pesticide since I don't want to contaminate my garden.
In the past I've used sticky traps with limited success.
This year we decided to try a new organic treatment called Spinosad.
A quote from this website about how to control this pest:
http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7412.html
"Spinosad is a biological product made from a naturally occurring bacterium called Saccharopolyspora spinosa. It is a lower-toxicity material that is safe for most beneficial insects as well as for people, pets, and the environment…"
Here is a link to Spinosad spray on Amazon:
https://smile.amazon.com/Monterey-LG6150-Garden-Spinosad-Concentrate/dp/B000BWY3OQ/
Here's a link to the gloves I used in the video on Amazon:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B086GFY55C/
Here's a link to the KF94 mask I used in the video on Amazon:
https://smile.amazon.com/Masks-Certified-KLEANNARA-4-Layer-Safety/dp/B0848TF834/
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Link to my Etsy Store:
https://betacygnidesigns.etsy.com/
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End Screen Video Acknowledgement: Cosmic Reef Video produced by NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/videos/2020/16/1277-Video
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