Carnation tortrix
Madeira. It is polyphagous, observed on 160 cultivated and wild plant species – trees as well as herbaceous forms - of 42 plant families, and it is the major [...] damage it inflicts on carnations and strawberries. Damage symptoms The larvae of the carnation tortrix ( Cacoecimorpha pronubana ) feed on the upper surface [...] laying up to 700 eggs, deposited in batches of 10 to 200 on the upper surface of leaves or on other greenhouse materials. At first, the eggs are a light