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Author: Dr Helen Tyzack
newtyzack@gmail.comMy blogsites
- Linkedin Helen Tyzack’s passions
- Mainland Discoveries Records of my explorations of landscapes on mainland Australia
- Touching the Tarkine Record of my exploration of Tasmania’s Tarkine wilderness
- Walking the Derwent The record of my walk from the mouth to the source of Tasmania’s Derwent River
Tag Archives: codling moth
Codling moth – help is on its way
Do you grow apples, pears or quinces? Have you found that ugly brown excrement, frass, oozing from your fruit, then cut them open to find tunnels and sometimes a moving codling moth grub? If so, read on to learn how … Continue reading
The gift of quinces part 2 of 2
I had expected a few. Once inside the house, I counted 42 quinces. What fabulous largesse! I wasn’t able to cook immediately. By next morning their heady outgassing had perfumed the entire house. I could smell them in the kitchen … Continue reading
More on the codling moth and Tasmania
Friend M alerted me to past Tasmanian history and the codling moth. She told me ‘Tasmania, and I guess some other states, had a Codling Moth Act, 1880 I think. It was very brief only a few paragraphs and printed … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, codling moth, Pear, Tasmania, The Codling Moth Eradication Bill, The Mercury
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The codling moth and drying apples
You have seen my pear slices drying in an earlier blog post and the process for the drying of apple slices is no different. But in preparing the apples for the food dryer I learnt something new. Whereas the codling … Continue reading
