Acta Hortic. ISHS DOI Serdar and H. Lepidoptera: Cossidae , is a polyphagous pest of many fruit trees, poplar, park, and garden trees. Despite being known as secondary pest, goat moth density has recently increased in chestnut orchards in Turkey. Controlling this pest is very hard because larvae live inside trunks and branches and periods of moth flight and oviposition are very long.
Intensive, direct spraying of chemical insecticides against these pests is extremely difficult, hence alternative control methods are needed. This study was conducted to provide data on alternative control methods such as adult mass trapping in chestnut groves. Traps were suspended from branches near the trunk 1. Traps were checked weekly and moths were removed and counted from mid-May to late September. The results show that C. The flying period of adults continued until early September.
Maximum adult emergence was between mid-July and mid-August. Population density and damage ratio were higher in the orchards infected with Cryphonectria parasitica Murr. Larvae in different stages were observed under the bark and inside trunks.
