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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
http://www.revivalhymn.com
----- 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.