Codling

- One of the main problems when growing apples and pears is a pest called the codling moth, the pink-white grubs of which How can I stop my marrows from getting powdery mildew without using chemicals? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Beyond Rush Limbaugh, the self-proclaimed "last man standing" against Obama worship, mocking Obama for, among other things, painting a wall in a homeless shelter in a call for national service as codling the poor, most criticism of Obama from the right takes the form of criticism of the financial bailout and the economic stimulus plan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You start counting days after that minumum temperature and then you spray your codling killer, pyrethrin in this case. ❋ Scusteister (2008)

Modern Technology for me is a max/min thermometer that will tell me when the biofix for the codling moth is in. ❋ Scusteister (2008)

Those republicans who are greedy (as most are) are given the promise of getting rich, big tax cuts, cutting crime by not codling the poor ‘black man’ and welfare queens while they kill any of them that are ‘dangerous’. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But in the USA our dumb ed down “for Profit” media will continue codling these folks until half of our damn population are dim witted asshats! ❋ Unknown (2007)

At first I thought it was the oriental fruit moth; then I was sure it was the brown marmorated stink bug; this year I blamed codling moths. ❋ Scusteister (2006)

• Cooking apples are distinctly tart when raw a pH around 3 and sugar content around 12%, well-balanced when cooked, and have a firm flesh that tends to maintain its structure when heated in pies or tarts, rather than falling immediately into a puree or—as in some early “codling” varieties— into a fluffy froth. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Also sometimes middling turbot, with whiting, codling and large flounders; the small fish, as above, they sell in the country. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Other dishes were served in inventive presentations of sauces and florid concoctions of combined ingredients, from porpoise and peas in onion wine sauce, to sturgeon roe and gurnard flanks, to great plaice and codling pie in sauce vert. ❋ Goodkind, Terry (1999)

The neem tree of India is reported to have a taste that insects hate to eat, and some pine tree needles contain chemicals that can kill houseflies, codling moths, and apple moths. ❋ Unknown (1982)

Any one who has attempted to raise apples, for example, has made the unpleasant acquaintance of the codling moth and the curculio. ❋ Thomas Gilbert Pearson (N/A)

Some of our most formidable insects have been accidentally imported from Europe, such as the codling moth, asparagus beetle, cabbage butterfly, currant worm and borer, elm-tree beetle, hessian fly, etc.; but in nearly every instance these have come over without bringing their insect enemies with them, and in consequence they have spread more extensively here than in Europe. ❋ Various (N/A)

The codling moth, one of the most formidable fruit destroyers, may be reduced in number by the well-known paper bands; but a more efficient remedy is to shower them early in the season with Paris green, mixed in water at the rate of only one pound to one hundred gallons of water, with ❋ Various (N/A)

Among insects that attack large fruits is the codling moth, to be destroyed by paper bands, or with Paris green showered in water. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mr. Dyer: What pressure would you recommend in spraying for codling moth where arsenate of lead is used? ❋ Various (N/A)

Reports of injury by the walnut weevil, Conotrachelus juglandis, and also by codling moth larvae have been received. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It feeds, among other things, on borers living in the bark of trees, on plant lice which suck the sap, on caterpillars which consume the leaves, and on codling worms which destroy fruit. ❋ Thomas Gilbert Pearson (N/A)