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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Someone said, "We also have lots of wild cherry trees here; they may be a 
reservoir for the curculios."

   I haven't found that to be true here in zone 3.  But I really do wonder 
what is the alternate host for curculios.  I bag the apples and pears, and 
there are no wild apples within miles.  There might be hundreds of infected 
plums one year followed by a zero crop the following year followed by 
hundreds of infected plums the next year.  What do they infect during the 
no-plum-crop year?

Jim Fruth
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Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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