Search this blog
Google Translate
Archives
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- January 2018
- December 2017
- October 2017
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
Posted in Tasmania
Tagged apple, codling moth, Pear, Tasmania, The Codling Moth Eradication Bill, The Mercury
Leave a comment
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