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Identifying common insect pests and diseases of stone fruits
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The information presented here about common diseases, insect pests and beneficial species was developed from the publication A Pocket Guide for IPM Scouting in Stone Fruits by David Epstein, Larry J. Gut, Alan L. Jones and Kimberly Maxson-Stein. This is a pocket-sized guide for reference in the orchard and it can be purchased from MSU Extension (Publication E-2840. Also available in Spanish E-2840SP).
 Pocket guide
   
Insect and mite pests
American plum borer
Aphids, about
Black cherry aphid
Black cherry fruit flies
Borers
Cherry fruit flies
Cherry fruitworm
Cherry leafminer
European red mite
Green fruitworm
Green peach aphid

Green stink bug
Japanese beetle
Lesser peachtree borer
Mineola moth
Mites
Oriental fruit moth
Peach bark beetle
Peachtree borer
Pear slug/sawfly
Plum curculio		 Plum nursery mite
Plum rust mite
Rose chafer
Sawfly
Speckled green fruitworm
Shothole borer
Tarnished plant bug
Twospotted spider mite
Western flower thrips
White apple leafhopper
Beneficials, natural enemies
Agistemus fleschneri
Amblyseius fallacis
Assassin bugs
Beneficials, about
Braconid wasp
Damsel bug		 Eulophid
Green lacewing
Lady beetle
Minute pirate bug
Orange cecidomyiid
Parasitoids		 Parasitoid wasp families
Stethorus punctum
Syrphid fly
Tachinid fly
Typhlodromus pyri
Zetzellia mali
Diseases
Alternaria fruit rot
American brown rot
Armillaria root rot
Bacterial canker
Bacterial spot
Black knot of plum
Cherry leaf spot

 Crown gall
European brown rot
Fusicoccum canker
Gummosis
Peach leaf curl
Peach perennial canker		 Peach scab
Phytophthora root and crown rot
Powdery mildew of cherry
Powdery mildew
Rusty spot of peach
X- Disease
This information was developed from A Pocket Guide for IPM Scouting in Stone Fruits by David Epstein, Larry J. Gut, Alan L. Jones and Kimberly Maxson-Stein. Purchase this in a pocket-sized guide for reference in the orchard from MSU Extension (publication E-2840).
The MSU IPM Program maintains this site as an access point to pest management information at MSU. The IPM Program is administered within the Department of Entomology, fueled by research from the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, delivered to citizens through MSU Extension, and proud to be a part of Project GREEEN.
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01/08/08