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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

>      You have the classic symptoms of Oriental Fruit Moth which lays 
> eggs in the tips of new growth.  The egg hatches inside the shoot and 
> tunnels downward.  My experience is that if your trees are protected 
> with an insecticide (my choice was Imidan, and still is) through petal 
> fall to late June/mid July, it will do the trick.


Thanks, Ed, that's a big help! What a great list this is!

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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