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Chemical type and typical trade names

Cost for control for season on one tree

Comments, Usage restrictions

Horticultural Oil: kills by suffocation, among various other ovicidal and larvicidal mechanisms

Superior oil -- Volck Spray Oil, SunSpray Ultra-Fine

Can be applied up to day of harvest, For Rust and spider mites only

Microbial Insecticides: various modes of action

Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki -- Bt, Safer's Caterpiller Killer

Applied weekly

Spinosad -- Entrust (registered Organic)

Applied weekly. Do not apply within 7 days of harvest for apples, 14 days for apricots and peaches

Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis -- Mosquito Dunks

Salts of Fatty Acids, Soaps: cell membrane disruptors, among other insecticidal

mechanisms

Insecticidal soap -- Safer's Insecticidal Soap, GardenSafe Insecticidal Soap

$26.88 per tree per season

Can be applied up to day of harvest

Nicotinoid Insecticides: acetylcholine mimics

Imidacloprid -- Bayer Advanced Garden Tree and Shrub Insect Control (not labeled for Codling Moth control), Bayer

AG All-in-One Rose and Flower Care, Bayer Advanced Lawn Season-long Grub

Control

Check label, not all products are labeled for Codling Moth control

Only one application per year

Organophosphate Insecticides (OPs): acetylcholinesterase inhibitors

Malathion -- Real Kill Malathion Spray, Bonide Tree Fruit Spray, Ortho

Malathion Plus Hy-Yield 55% Malathion

Cost varies substantially. Malathion Plus is $9 per tree per season

Must spray every 7- 10 days from petal fall until harvest. Do not apply within 3 days of harvest.

Acephate -- Ortho Systemic Insect Killer

Not labeled for Codling Moth

Carbamate Insecticides: acetylcholinesterase inhibitors

Carbaryl -- Sevin, Bonide Tree Fruit Spray

$16-$30 per tree per season

Spray every 10-14 days until 2 weeks before harvest. Use within 30 days of bloom will cause fruit thinning

Pyrethroid Insecticides: voltage-gated synaptic ion disruptors

Permethrin -- Ortho Basic Solutions

Not labeled for Codling Moth control

May not be available anymore. Do not apply after petal fall

Pyrethrins -- Spectracide (includes synergist, piperonyl butoxide), Pyganic

(registered Organic), Ortho Rose and Flower Spray (includes canola oil)

Do not apply within one day of harvest. Do not use all season. Will cause mite population outbreaks due to the death of beneficial mite predators.

Esfenvalerate -- Ortho Bug-B-Gon (discontinued), Ortho Max (not labeled for Codling Moth control)

$42-$82 per tree per season

Apply every 7-10 days. Don�t apply within 21 days of harvest

Bifenthrin -- Rose and Flower Spray

Not labeled for Codling Moth control

Lamda-Cyhalothrin -- Triazide Turf Spray

Not labeled for Codling Moth control

Other Materials

Azadirachtin -- GardenSafe Neem Concentrate, AZA-Direct (registered Organic)

Kaolin clay -- Surround (registered Organic)

$5.62 per tree per application. Check label. Not all Neem oil products are labeled for Codling Moth control

Apply every 7 to 10 days. Can be applied up to day of harvest

Diatomaceous Earth

Attract and Kill Technology -- Last Call CM (sex pheromone of codling moth, plus permethrin and UV protectant)

Practical only in larger orchards.