Linalool creates a synergistic effect with the codling moth's pheromone called codlemone, which increases attraction of males.[4]

This consignment was inspected and found free of any living stage of the light brown apple moth (Epiphyas postvittana), the Oriental fruit moth (Grapholita molesta) and the codling moth (Cydia pomonella).

This consignment was inspected and found free of any living stage of the light brown apple moth (Epiphyas postvittana), the Oriental fruit moth (Grapholita molesta) and the codling moth (Cydia pomonella).

By 2017, 137 Québec orchards, an area equivalent to 2,800 football fields, had adopted mating disruption to control codling moths.

Codling moth apples pome fruit Pest biology, type of damage, host morphology and application methods are similar for most pome crops.

Whether a third generation of codling moths can actually cause damage, however, depends on whether the grubs of this generation still find apples on the trees that they might attack.

All this increases the likelihood that in future, the codling moth will more often develop two to three generations a year in northern Switzerland, and three generations a year in southern Switzerland (CH2014).

As a result, many species such as the codling moth (Cydia pomonella) produce one generation more per year than they did several decades ago (Tobin et al., 2008).

What’s more, data from warmer regions indicate that through natural adaptation to higher temperatures, the codling moth may go into the dormant stage later (Hirschi et al., 2012, Stoeckli et al., 2012).