commonly known as the codling moth...
Once more, friends, the clue is in its Latin name. And the external signs that the larvae have been at work are fallen apples with taletale brown skin blemishes and cores filled with frass.
Next season I resolve to hang pheromone traps from the branches, girdle the trunks with grease bands.
Meanwhile, I make the most of this fallen fruit with blackberry and apple muffins, blackberry and apple crumble and my latest experiment, courtesy of the Hamlyn book of preserves, apple butter.
But apples would far better be blemish free and on the tree.
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