Bill Bleasdale of Tiger Weed Management designed and manufactured a new piece of equipment he calls the Tiger Clearwing Moth Sprayer to target a new pest that infests tree trunks. The machine has an electronic eye that switches off the spray between trunk Scientific literature from around the world ­suggests that clearwing moths are easily controlled with mating disruption, and that seemed like a good tactic for organic growers who don’t have many options, said Dr. Gary Judd, ento­mologist with the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre at Summerland, British Columbia, Canada. A major component of the apple clearwing moth pheromone was […]