IPM Fact Sheets

Insect Fact Sheets:

I have split this page into several smaller pages
For Specific General Fruit Information
For Specific Disease Information see Diseases

An organic apple spray program for apples.
Insect and Disease Control on Backyard Fruits,
Using Insect Traps, to Monitor insect pests
Beneficial Insects and Mites of fruit trees and small fruits

Some Common Fruit Pests

Summer Fruit Pests

Many of the Factsheets below are excerpted from 'Common Tree Fruit Pests" by Angus Howitt.  
This excellent publication is available in both hard and soft cover from the MSU Bulletin Office.

Direct Fruit Pests are those that attack the flower buds or fruit itself
Moths, Lepidoptera
Codling Moth a pest of apples and pears,
Green Fruitworm an early season pest of fruit trees,
Oriental Fruit Moth a pest of peaches and apples,
Cherry Fruitworm a fruit pest of tree fruits and blueberries

Other Direct Fruit Pests
Plum Curculio a generalist pest of all fruits after bloom,
Tarnished Plant Bug attacks fruit and flower deforming the fruit,

Picture Wing Fruit Flies
Apple Maggot a pest of apples and plums,
Blueberry Maggot a pest of blueberries,
Cherry Fruit Fly pests of cherries

Indirect Pests attack the leaves, stems or roots, occasionally the fruit

A Key to Leafroller Larvae that attack Fruit Trees
Fruittree Leafroller Fact sheet,
Tufted Apple Budmoth Factsheet
Obliquebanded Leafroller Fact sheet,
Redbanded Leafroller Fact Sheet,
Variegated Leafroller Fact Sheet
Potato leaf hopper damage (Pictures and Information)
Spotted Tentiform Leafminer a pest of apple leaves,
White Apple Leaf Hopper a pest of apples and plums

A Key to Aphids which attack Fruit Trees
Apple Grain Aphid a pest of apples
Apple Aphid a pest of apples
Rosy Apple Aphid a pest of apples,
Wooly Apple Aphid a pest of apples
Black Cherry Aphid pests of cherries,
Green Peach Aphid a pest of peaches

A key to Mites that attack fruit trees
European Red Mite Factsheet,
Two-Spotted Spider Mite a pest of fruit trees and strawberries

Scale Insects suck sap from the shoots and weaken the tree
San Jose Scale a pest of many trees species
Oystershell Scale
European Lecanium Scale is a soft scale
Forbes Scale

Borers, bore into the trunk or limbs
American Plum Borer a generalist pest of stone fruits, apples and many other trees.
Dogwood Borer, a pest of apples and blueberries
Lesser Peach Tree Borer a pest of stone fruits
Peach Tree Borer a pest of stone fruits
Fruit Tree Borers in Cherries

Blueberry and Cranberry Pests
Cranberry Fruitworm a fruit pest of cranberries and blueberries
Cherry Fruitworm a fruit pest of tree fruits and blueberries

Grape Pests
Grape Berry Moth a fruit pest of grapes
Grape Mealy Bug can cause a black sooty deposit on the fruit

Pear Pests
Pear Psylla can cause a black sooty deposit on the fruit and leaves
Pear Leaf Blister Mite cause blistering of the leaves
Pear Rust Mite cause russetting of the fruit
Pear Slug can be a problem in trees that do not receive insecticide treatments
Grape Mealy Bug is also a pest in pears

Incidental pests which are not to choosy about what they eat.
Japanese Beetle factsheet is pretty general and not specific to any one fruit.
Rose Chafer this article appeared in the Fruit CAT Alert in 2001

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Created December 5, 1996
Last modified: May 7, 2008