- It is a widespread attack in Halland this year, and also in the whole of southern Sweden, because there is a shortage of rowanberries.

A lot of rowanberries died in the flowering and then the rowanberry moth goes on the apples instead, says Johanna Berdén, gardener at Munkagårdsgymnasiet outside Varberg, to P4 Halland.

In several groups on Facebook, garden owners talk about infested apples.

Several temples also testify to a lot of apples with damage.

Dot on top

According to P4 Halland, the county administrative board in Halland estimates that a third of the smaller apple orchards in the county had problems.

- It looks like a dot on the outside, and then when you cut the apple you see these brown little passages where the caterpillar has crawled around, says Johanna Berdén to the radio.

To get rid of the rowanberry moth, you have to set traps in early summer.

The attacks usually come every two years, and 2019 was a year when the apples did well.

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Garden expert Maj-Lis Petterson shows an apple that has been attacked by both rowanberry moth and apple wrapper.

Photo: Märta Gross Hulth / SVT