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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

On 6/11/2012 12:36 AM, Claude Jolicoeur wrote:
> Le 23:43 12.06.10, vous avez écrit:
> > It seems I have European apple sawfly.
>
> Steve, see a picture of EAS I took a few years ago:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/cjoliprsf/Divers
>
> And yes, the little beasts can really overthin
> your crop. Interestingly however, they seem to be
> somewhat irregular, in the sense that one year
> there is an infestation, and the following year,
> nothing, couldn't see one damaged fruit.
> Claude

Thanks Claude, that's a better picture than any on the web that I could 
find.
I've been seeing this damage for so many years I don't remember when I 
first saw it. Some years were worse than others but it was always so 
mild that I could ignore it. This year, it's going to seriously cut down 
on my harvest. Since I just grow these apples for my own use, the loss 
is not a real big deal. I'll still have quite a few, assuming no other 
disaster, such as hail. It's not as bad as a year when a big frost hits 
at the worst time and reduces the crop to nearly nothing. Fortunately, 
that is very rare too.

Steve