Selected images for false codling moth (Thaumatotibia leucotreta )
False codling moth is native to Ethiopia and sub-Saharan Africa. It is not known to be established in North America. Main routes of introduction are larvae on fruits, pods, or flowers. There are more than 70 potential U.S. hosts including: okra, mallow, acacia, pineapple, pepper, tea, pecan, citrus, coffee, persimmon, fig, cotton, hibiscus, walnut, macadamia, mango, banana, olive, avocado, bean, yellowwood, apricot, plum, guava, pomegranate, oak, sorghum, and grape. The time for development is highly temperature defendant with up to five generations per year in South Africa. A female moth can lay up to 400 flattened-oval, pin-head sized eggs, usually placed singly. Young caterpillars are yellowish-white with dark spots. Larvae can grow to be 1/2 inch in length and are bright red or pink with a yellow-brown head. On citrus, young larvae mine into the fruit, causing premature ripening. External indications may be seen as scarring on the fruit. On cotton it first mines the boll wall, but later transfers to the seeds. This feeding habit leaves few indications of the feeding being done inside the seeds. When mature, the larva descends to the ground on a silken thread and spins a tough silken cocoon in the soil and duff. Males and female adults have distinctly different patterns. The wingspan ranges from 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch. Both genders have patterns on the forewing of grey, brown, black and orange-brown markings. The male's hindwing is slightly reduced with a circular pocket of fine, hairlike black scales overlaid and broad, whitish scales in the anal angle.
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1265036 false codling moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta Larva(e) Tertia Grové |
5137007 false codling moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta Damage J.H. Hofmeyr |
5137009 false codling moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta Pupa(e) J.H. Hofmeyr |
5137015 false codling moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta Egg(s) J.H. Hofmeyr |
5137017 false codling moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta Egg(s) J.H. Hofmeyr |
5137019 false codling moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta Larva(e) J.H. Hofmeyr |
5137021 false codling moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta Adult(s) J.H. Hofmeyr |
5314068 false codling moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta Adult(s) Pest and Diseases Image Library |
