April 22, 2012

One of the many factors that contributed to a decline in apple production in Northwest Arkansas by the 1960s was the damage done by the codling moth, which had been introduced from England years before. Although popular culture usually attributes the “worm in the apple” to the earthworm, it is actually the larva of the coding moth.

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