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[Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>]

derry&bill wrote:

> Sam,
>
> It is possible that the pest that bites a hole in your apple is a climbing
> cutworm.  They usually bite on the 'top' (i.e. stem end) or the sides.  Once
> they've made a hole, the earwigs and sowbugs and lady bugs and wasps all
> move in to eat the flesh.
> The cutworms come out of the soil late at night, climb up the tree, bite the
> hole and eat a bit, and go down into the soil during the daytime.  That's
> why you never see them.
>
> Derry
>  
If so they sure go to a lot of exercize to get one bite.
How come they do not attack more than one apple?
What do they look like?
How do you kill them?
I suspected a bird took a nip.
Sam