Problem Category: Lawn & Garden

Fruit Tree Insects

Aphids

Tiny, soft insects that cluster on the underside of leaves, stems and buds and suck plant juices. Aphids can multiply rapidly and large numbers will damage young leaves and fruit. Aphids leave a sticky secretion on plants.

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Codling Moth

Brown-headed, pinkish worms 1 inch long that tunnel into apples, pears and other fruit and nut trees. Tunnels are characterized by dark masses of excrement. Once the worms penetrate the fruit there is no way to kill them.

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Fruit Maggots

These are the larvae of several types of flies. Small white worms infest apple, cherry, peach, pear and other fruit trees. Infected fruit is pitted with brown trails winding through the flesh. There is no way to control fruit maggots after the fruit is infested.

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Plum Curculio

Brown beetles with long, curved snouts lay eggs in apples, plums, pears and other stoned fruit. Crescent-shaped grubs feed on fruit causing misshapen, rotten fruit. Scale Insects - Hard, round, raised bump are formed by scale insects on leaves, bark and fruit of many fruit trees. Young insects suck the sap from the tree. Entire branches may die.

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Scale Insects

Hard, round, raised bumps are formed by scale insects on leaves, bark and fruit of many fruit trees. Young insects suck the sap from the tree. Entire branches may die.

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