NOUN
- small Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants
- California moth whose larvae live in especially oranges
How To Use tortrix In A Sentence
- Environmental monitoring of Archips podana (fruit tree tortrix moth) in Bramley apple orchards in Northern Ireland
- Your clianthus is infested with Carnation Tortrix caterpillars.
- MLEs were detected in the summer fruit tortrix Adoxophyes orana fasciata and the tea tortrix Homona magnanima, but no MLEs were detected in the parasitoid wasp Ascogaster quadridentata.
- The commonest are the tiny green caterpillars of the green oak tortrix moth. Times, Sunday Times
- A third spray may be needed in late July or early August if tortrix moths are a problem.
- Consequently, the ability of parasites and predators of the orange tortrix to substantially suppress pest populations is greatly diminished by the use of insecticides.
- A simpler system can now be proposed in the light of wind-tunnel experiments on male summer fruit tortrix moths entering homogeneous pheromone clouds.
- Orange tortrix moths are fawn or gray and the chevron pattern has less contrast than that of the garden tortrix.
- The natural enemies can play an essential role in the regulation of the tortrix moths population dynamics.
- This is probably caterpillars of the tortrix moth. The Sun