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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

I wouldn't want to claim that wasps and yellow jackets are not the cause 
of your holes in fruit, but there can be another cause.

In peaches small spots of rot are sometimes cleaned out by ants. I 
imagine that some wasp-type insects which do not puncture holes on their 
own may suck juice from such holes.

Doug Woodard
St Catharines, Ontario, Canada



Road's End Farm wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Alan Haigh wrote:
[snip]

>     As a fruit grower bald-face hornets and yellow jackets can be more
>     than a nuisance some years as they destroy a lot of fruit by chewing
>     holes in all the best stuff just as it ripens. 

[snip]