LET UTAH TREE DOCTOR HELP YOU KEEP THOSE FRUITWORMS AT BAY
What Is The Cause Of My Tree's Illness?
There are several types of fruitworms, which are the larvae of different moth species in the genus Lepidoptera. The larvae are pests of fruit trees.
Damage Caused By Fruitworms
Small larvae feed on young foliage initially, buds and blooms later, and finally on the fruit when it becomes available. They cause deep, sunken pits in the fruit. Most of the fruit damaged by these caterpillars fall to the ground by early June. Damaged fruit remaining on the tree has large, sunken, corky wounds at harvest.
How A Basic Diagnoses Is Made
The adults of these pests are light brown 1-inch-long moths with mottled forewings. The larvae are green with numerous white or blue flecks, a thin light colored stripe down the middle of the back and a wider stripe along each side of the body. The robust larvae can reach 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 inches when full grown.
PESTS, PROBLEMS AND THEIR TREATMENTS
Ash Borer
Aspen Gall
Aspen Black Leaf Spot
Birch Leafminer
Birch Stink Bugs
Black Locust Borer
Black Turpentine Beetle/Pitch Moth
Boxelder Webworms
Bronze Birch Borer
Chlorosis
Codling Moth
Coryneum Blight
Conifer Bark Beetle Ground
Elm Leaf Beetle
Fall Poplar Borer
Fall Willow Borer
Fire Blight
Greater Peach Tree Borer
Gummosis
Honey Locust Borer
Lesser Peach Tree Borer
Oak Bullet Gall
Oak Lace Bugs
Oak Leaf Blister
Oak Webworms
Pine Tip Weevil
Powdery Mildew
Sawfly
Scale
Slime Flux
Spider Mites
Spring Poplar Borer
Spring Willow Borer
Spruce Cooley Gall Adelgid
Strawberry Root Weevil
Sycamore Anthracnose
Fruitworm
