Photo © Andy Mitchell

Oriental Fruit Moth

Grapholita molesta

Checklist Number
49.3541 [B&F: 1248]

Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification

Classification

Family:Tortricidae
Subfamily:Olethreutinae
Genus:Grapholita
Species:molesta
Authority:(Busck, 1916)

Recorded infrequently through accidental importation in fruit from Asia. This Oriental species has spread to many places across the world, where it is a pest of peach and other species of cultivated Prunus. In Hampshire two specimens are known to have been bred from imported fruit, both of which were purchased from Sainsbury's in Winchester in the late 1980s. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 11-14 mm. Distinguished from G. funebrana by its generally smaller size, the better defined fasciate markings and white discocellular spot of the forewing, and in the male also by the patch of pale scales along the middle of the termen of the hindwing [Bradley]. Larva feeds within fruit of Peach and Pear, no evidence of breeding in the UK.

The abundance in each month is indicated as follows:

No records
Very occasional
Irregular
Uncommon
Off-peak, but not unusual
Off-peak, but not unusual
Main flight time
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Adult
Larval

Records by week (adult)

No Adult records to show.

Records by week (larval)

No Larval records to show.

VC11 South Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Chandlers Ford (SU42)01/02/2004oneBrian ElliottAdult

VC12 North Hampshire

Site Date Quantity Recorder Stage
Winchester (SU42)1987oneReg A BellLarval
Winchester (SU42)21/08/1988oneD H SterlingLarval