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  • From: <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Peach twig problems
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:03:43 -0500

If you visit http://www.okstate.edu/ag/asnr/hortla/ftpcns/ofm.htm you can see photos of the moth, tree damage and monitoring traps. Another good photo is at http://ces.ca.uky.edu/mccreary/anr/Peaches/Insects/oriental_fruit_moth.htm. The key to spraying is the timing. If you visit http://lawnandgarden.unl.edu/scripts/com_disease_insect.cgi?ID=514 you will find info for Nebraska although you are in the same Zone 5 as we are so your timing is relatively the same as ours and Michigan. The MSU info at http://www.ipm.msu.edu/fruitpests/orientalfruitmoth.htm will give you as much info as you might need for timing your sprays. Hope this helps.

Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
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----- Original Message ----- From: <nbeaureg@student.umass.edu>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Peach twig problems


i second Ed.
ncb
Z5
greenfield MA
good peach and apple set here.



Quoting Ed Fackler <ed.fackler@gmail.com>:

Bill:

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.







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