Build an Apple Worm Trap-Organic Gardening-Old Family Recipe
Build an Apple Worm Trap. Are you tired of having worms nest inside of your apples? I am sharing with you an old family recipe, used for decades in our orchards.
It’s simple, cheap and it works.
No more worms in my mouth, yuk! Nothing worse that anticipating a delicious, cold and crisp apple, and then you bite into a nest.
You can also sray cooking oil on the trunks of your apple trees before your apple tree blooms, and this deters, worms from crawling up the tree.
Yes, most likely. Catapillars are heavy this year, they did something I never have seen before, they ate my red current bush, and left the berries, at least. All the leaves were gone in two days. I suppose the catapillars were mad, because all the pears and apple trees have these juice and banana traps hanging everywhere. I check the bottles yesterday, hey it works better than even I hoped. It was full of worms.
I wonder how peta feels about this. Anyways, snails and slugs are soooo disgusting! What if they get in there? Would they drown?
lol I forgot about dogs watering it and I have 6 dogs, 2 are boys and well… you know how that goes lol
I believe the adult moths catapillars start flying by mid to late May, that eggs take 2 weeks to hatch. Apples need to be mid-sized before the larvae can get very big. Some farmes wrap the trunks of their fruit trees with cotton batan and cardboard. The larvae makes a nest in this instead of the tree and center of the fruit. Start wrapping the trunk, when this time arrives most likely July.
Sometimes you have to spray the ground and the trunk of the tree, inspite of how organic minded you are. Usually the larvae leaves the apple, when it rots on the ground, and buries itself underground. Then the following year up the tree they go. Also some apple pests lodge themselves under the rough bark of the tree. I’ve used cooking oil to slow them down. I find that just good orchard management,remove dead branches and keep the area beneath the tree clean. It’s ok to spray-Usually June-July.
As soon as we see that cotton candy like nest in the apple tree. We’ve always cut the branch section, totally out. And make sure none of the catapillars fall to the ground. Don’t leave this nest in a pile in your yard. Get rid of it, off your property. Catapillars lay their larve inside of the apple core and never leave the apple. The apple maggot however eats the flesh of the apple. So you can determine which pest you need to attend too. Pick up those fallen apples.
What happens if you have apples that have been really heavy with catapillars? Do you know how to get rid of these pets?
Build an Apple Worm Trap. Are you tired of having worms nest inside of your apples? I am sharing with you an old family recipe, used for decades in our orchards.
It’s simple, cheap and it works.
No more worms in my mouth, yuk! Nothing worse that anticipating a delicious, cold and crisp apple, and then you bite into a nest.
You can also spray cooking oil on the trunks of your apple trees before your apple tree blooms, and this deters, worms from crawling up the tree.
It’s best to put the Apple worm trap in the tree because snails, slugs and other pests will crawl inside too. Also the dog may water the trap, and it would loose it’s appeal. The tree I used is very young, but in my older trees, I place the trap, in the lap of the tree, you know, directly above the trunk. This way all worms must go by the trap. You can put smaller traps all over your tree. Just use smaller plastic bottles.
This is kool! What if they take a right instead of a left on any of the branches? lol
Why not put this at the base of the tree where they MUST climb up, I mean if they mut start there wouldnt there be no mistake that you could catch MANY more of them from below before they even reach your tree branches?
I got two apple tree, no fruit yet, they are too young yet BUT I will definately do an experiment between them on this. Great video and great idea!