While many types of plants are attacked, the redbanded leafroller has a strong preference for apples. Redbanded leafroller larvae feed on apple foliage and often feed on fruit, with the last generation of the season doing the most serious damage. The larvae of each species can damage the fruit when they attach a leaf to the fruit surface and then feed on skin and flesh. The obliquebanded leafroller is brown with three dark bands on the front wings. Wingspread is about one inch.
Larva are small and green with black heads.
The redbanded leafroller is brown, about the size of the codling moth, and have broad reddish bands on each forewing. The fruittree leafroller is a brown moth slightly larger than the codling moth. Thin light markings will appear in various patterns across the front wings. The larva is a slender worm, pale green in color. The head is black and a black spot will appear just behind the head.