It's a beautiful spring day out on the farm. The birds are singing, the grass is green, and the blossoms are now appearing on the apple trees. This is the perfect day and time to talk about insect infestation prevention in an orchard.
We do not spray our apples. It is a tedious process, expensive, and unhealthy way to go for managing wormy apples. What we do instead is hang stockings full of moth balls to prevent the moths from coming to our orchard to lay their eggs.
You see, the worms that you find in apples start off as an egg that is laid inside the blossom by the moth. This has to happen in the spring when the buds open up into the fragrant apple blossoms we love. To prevent this from happening, we mask the smell of the blossoms with moth balls, something that the moths detest and stay away from. Sure, our apple orchard doesn't smell so nice in the spring, but we have a large worm free apple crop in the fall from year to year!
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