To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Peach twig problems
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:48:18 -0400
i second Ed.
ncb
Z5
greenfield MA
good peach and apple set here.
Quoting Ed Fackler <ed.fackler@gmail.com>:
> Bill:
>
> You have the classic symptoms of Oriental Fruit Moth which lays eggs in
> the tips of new growth. The egg hatches inside the shoot and tunnels
> downward. My experience is that if your trees are protected with an
> insecticide (my choice was Imidan, and still is) through petal fall to late
> June/mid July, it will do the trick.