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In a message dated 5/7/2011 2:08:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Docshiva@Docshiva.org writes:

> I read a report on using hogs in orchards to sharply reduce plum curculio
> problems - the hogs eat their habitat.

Having any livestock that would eat the fallen infected fruit would give 
good control of plum curculio. The life cycle of PC is 30 days. The fruit 
gets 
infected, is aborted, falls to the ground where the larva enters the soil 
to pupate, then emerge as a moth fly into the tree, infect more fruits which 
fall to the ground and the cycle is repeated multiply. Livestock eating the 
fallen fruits breaks the cycle. 

Jerry