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
- Apples are the most susceptible crop as they can be attacked by caterpillars of the fruit tree tortrix moth.
- The summer fruit tortrix moth is not known to occur in North America but is a major pest of fruit crops, especially apple and pear, in countries where it occurs.
- The sex-pheromone activity of a mixture of cis - 9-tetradecenyl acetate and cis - 11-tetradecenyl acetate towards male summer fruit tortrix moths was determined in laboratory tests.
- The earliest are the caterpillars of the tiny green tortrix moth, which hide themselves in rolled-up leaves, fastened by silk. Times, Sunday Times
- Outbreaks of the large aspen tortrix tend to precede those of the forest tent caterpillar.
- Few pests attack rhubarb but tortrix moth caterpillars can completely strip the leaves. The Sun
- The summer fruit tortrix moth and is one of the most devastating pests in pome fruits and stone fruits; apples and pears.
- Sugar pine tortrix larva with ivory colored spots, easily confused with western spruce budworm.
- Oak tortrix (fat, green, black-spotted) and mottled umber caterpillars (black, brown and yellow mottled) are abundant. Country Diary: Cranleigh, Surrey
- Each pheromone trap is specific to the appropriate species of tortrix moth.
