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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

A week later, I'm still fighting these things... European Apple sawfly. 
By fighting, I mean searching for infested apples, plucking them and 
dropping them into a bucket of water.
Finally today I feel that it is about over. I still found a couple dozen 
damaged apples but that's far less than a couple of days ago. A couple 
of days after I searched the trees the first time, I searched all over 
again and found more damaged apples (hundreds) than the first time.
I still have apples left. A few branches that should be able to hold 
dozens of apples have only a few left. A few branches have so many left 
that I will thin them a bit more. Most branches on my 4 trees are 
thinned just about right. I have been thinning out deformed apples and 
reducing clusters to one or two in the few places where that many apples 
remain.

On 6/11/2012 12:11 AM, Steve wrote:
> My biggest apples are just bigger that the size of a nickle with some
> varieties still much smaller. I couldn't understand how I could have
> apparent coddling moth damage on so many tiny apples when I virtually
> never find them in mature apples. I also wondered why the entry hole
> wasn't at the calyx end.
> Well, I don't have coddling moths, I have European apple sawfly. The
> reason for two types of damage is that they start right at petal fall
> and make a path on the surface of very young apples:
> http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/orchardmon/pest_descriptions/pest_images/ph1-35c.JPG