Codling Moth & Oriental Fruit Moth Trap (2 Pack, 8 Week)

We just finished harvesting our mini home fruit crop (8 trees all together) and in the process grabbed the moth traps from the trees. It's only at the end of the season when we find out how many we trapped, hopefully before they got to the fruit. The traps were pretty full. Yeah, happy that they worked. Not happy that we need them.Concerned about Coddling and other Fruit Moth damage to your fruit? These work. We get the most benefit from them from mid July when fruit first starts to appear, through picking in late September here in the high desert of central Oregon.

The first couple years my apple trees started bearing fruit, pretty much ALL my apples were very much worm-eaten. Like every single one. I really didn't know what I was doing back then. Now I get these moth traps together with Trichogramma wasps and I'm also vigilant all year picking fruit off that shows signs of worms. I'm not sure how beneficial any one of these treatments alone is, but taken together, I get lots and LOTS of good fruit with NO chemical pesticides. I can see that these catch lots of moths, so they must be contributing significantly to the cause. The only problem is that they are a bit pricey--I have 3 trees spread out across my yard and for areas with lots of moths (like mine) you should do 2 traps per tree and you are supposed to change the traps once or even twice during the growing season. At the current asking price of $15 for a pair, that's up to $135 just on these traps. Considering you can buy (non-organic) apples at the store for somewhere around a dollar a pound, that means I would need to get at least 135 pounds of worm-free apples in order to make this pay for itself (add the price of eating pesticides--whatever that is to you).I compromise. I'm ok having several wormy apples (I can cut the bad parts out and make applesauce), so I just buy 1 or 2 of these for the year and call that good. That works pretty well. With all my efforts put together, I get about 1/4 of a harvest that is worm-free and then I get a lot of apple sauce, apple crisp, apple bread and other apple-y things. 1/4 may not sound great, but it's a LOT better than what I was getting before.

Tim gonna tell on these, but they’re in my tree. They’ve already caught some bugs. I could fill the tack Smilth a couple times. Since I put them up, they didn’t fall and the size is very

Product seemed easy enough to set up and place in trees. I wish I was able to see it catch moths but unfortunately we had some wind and rain right after I put them up and the twist ties that came with them just didn't work. They were constantly falling down. Basically I wasted my money there, but perhaps not the fault of the trap? The inclement weather happened to coincide with the trap placement before the bloom onset. I want to try these again but wish they were a little cheaper considering its a piece of cardboard and a twist tie. Lots of other bugs got stuck but few moths. Again, not sure if this was a result of the weather or the trap failed to lure.

I hang the two traps since May. My two apple trees are now totally infected with codling moth larvae. 9 out of 10 apples have worms inside. Not even a single codling moth was caught in the two traps from May to August. The traps just caight a lot of small moths and a hoenet but no codling moth. Do not waste your money.

Definitely helped trap pesty coddling moths that get my apples each year!

We have used this product for the last 10 years. We bought a house, with the neighbor behind us, planted an apple tree and NEVER trimmed it or sprayed it. We limbed up the branches that were laying on the ground. ALL the apples had worms [we did not know what coddling moths were.] I read and read and hung up 2 in their tree and 2 in my plum tree.After 8 years, I made the neighbors, applesauce and plum sauce. They are trying to trim the apple tree by cutting off any branches that are above the fence, then he bought INDOOR yellow fly paper to hang in all his trees. MAYBE he will finally hire a tree trimmer and learn how to care for the trees he planted.....LOL

I haven't noticed codling moths on the traps too much, but I know they are in the apples. It does help me know when to spray. There is no smell, easy to attach to tree.