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- Apple pests include Codling, March and Winter moths – but their larvae provide a useful food for blue and great-tits. There is a number of moths who feed only on apple trees, including the Apple Bud Moth, Apple Ermine, Apple Leaf Skeletonizer, Apple Leaf Miner, Apple Fruit Moth, Apple Pygmy, Green Pug, Leopard, Red-Belted Clearwing, Ysolopha spp. Up to 70 different species of moth may eat apple trees, either foliage, flowers or inside the twigs. Don’t worry, you are most unlikely to have them all eating your tree at the same time!
- Caterpillars increase their size 1000 times from hatching to become a pupa.
- Strawberries and other plants contain a chemical called phytochrome that tells them whether it is day or night and how long the day is.
- Hedgehogs were reputed to carry ripe apples back to their nests for winter storage by rolling on the ground under the trees. When the hedgehog uncurled and wandered off, it would have fruit embedded on its spines to take home.
- The Duke of Milan had an orchard in full fruit carried into his dining room “in little carts” for a special dinner in 1560.
- The Roman goddess of apples was called Pomona. She has a cooking apple named after her – Cox’s Pomona, raised by Mr Richard Cox who bred the renowned Cox’s Orange Pippin.
- Onions were grown by the Ancient Egyptians in about 3 000 BC.
- Apples were taken to Tasmania and planted there by Captain Bligh in 1788.
- 1 million people died during the Irish potato famine and a further 1 million emigrated.
- People have been eating apples for over 8,500 years and growing apple trees for at least 4000 years.
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