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Orchard management guide for apples, with information on insect, disease, weed, and mammal control, plus horticultural and fertility practices, use of IPM, prevention of insecticide resistance, and sprayer calibration.

• Apple
• Apple Orchard
• Orchard Management Calendar
• Orchard Management
• Apple Spray Guide
• Ipm
• Commercial Apple Production
• Fruit Tree

Homeowners who grow fruit in backyards or small orchards find that disease and insect pests often ruin the crop and in some instances damage the tree itself. This publication covers common diseases and insect issues in backyard orchards in North Carolina.

• Pest Control
• Pest Management
• Integrated Pest Management
• Orchard Management
• Tree Pest
• Plant Pathology
• Disease
• Orchard
• Pest
• Fruit Tree Pest
• Small Orchard
• Fruit Tree Disease
• Fruit Tree

This publication covers insect control in a variety of crops, as well as household pests.

• Agricultural Chemical
• Insect
• Pesticide

Lady beetle description, life cycle, and predation.

• Insect Pest
• Lady Beetle

Brown marmorated stink bug description, life history, damage, and control.

• Stink Bug
• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
• Pest
• Insect
• Insect Pest

Codling moth description, life history, damage, and control.

• Codling Moth
• Entomology
• Pest

Cicada impacts on apple - description, life cycle, damage, and control.

• Magicicada
• Cicadidae
• Cicada

This publication covers insect and disease control in apples, blueberries, caneberries, grapes, peaches, pecans and strawberries.

• Insects
• Agricultural Chemical

Syrphid fly description, life history, and predation.

• Syrphid Fly
• Hover Fly
• Fly

Dogwood borer description, life history, damage, and control.

• Dogwood Borer
• Clearwing Moth
• Moth
• Borer

Green apple and spirea aphids - description, life history, damage, and control.

• Apple
• Spirea Aphid
• Green Apple Aphid
• Apple Production
• Aphid
• Fruit Tree
• Fruit Insect

Oriental fruit moth description, life history, damage, and control.

• Fruit
• Entomology
• Pest
• Moth
• Insect

Plum curculio description, life history, damage, and control.

• Apple
• Plum Curculio
• Conotrachelus Nenuphar
• Entomology
• Pest
• Peach
• Fruit Tree
• Plum

Green fruitworm description, life cycle, damage, and control.

• Lithophane Antennata
• Pest
• Fruit Insect
• Worm

This publication describes the peachtree borer's life history, damage, and control.

• Insect Pests
• Peach
• Borer
• Fruit Tree
• Insect Pest

Obliquebanded leafroller description, life history, damage, and control.

• Choristoneura Rosaceana
• Obliquebanded Leafroller
• Entomology
• Leafroller

This document discusses the description, life history, damage, and control of the woolly apple aphid.

• Apple
• Eriosoma Lanigerum
• Woolly Apple Aphid
• Apple Production
• Entomology
• Aphid
• Fruit Tree
• Fruit Insect

Lacewing description, life history, and predation.

• Lacewing

Tarnished plant bug description, life history, damage, and control.

• Lygus Lineolaris
• Entomology
• Pest
• Fruit Disease
• Fruit Insect
• Tarnished Plant Bug

This publication offers information on the description, life history, and control of the apple maggot.

• Apple
• Apple Production
• Entomology
• Fruit Tree
• Fruit Insect

Twospotted spider mite description, life history, damage, and control.

• Twospotted Spider Mite
• Entomology
• Mite

Tufted apple bud moth description, life cycle, monitoring, and control.

• Apple
• Platynota Idaeusalis
• Apple Production
• Leafroller
• Fruit Tree
• Fruit Insect

European red mite description, life history, damage, and control.

• European Red Mite
• Panonychus Ulmi
• Entomology
• Pest
• Mite

Rosy apple aphid description, life cycle, history, and control.

• Apple
• Dyaphis Planaginea
• Aphid
• Fruit Tree
• Fruit Insect
• Rosy Apple Aphid

Japanese beetle description, life history, damage, and control.

• Popillia Japonica
• Japanese Beetle
• Entomology
• Pest
• Beetle

Spotten tentiform leafminer description, life history, damage, and control.

• Phyllonoryceter Blancardella
• Spotted Tentiform Leafminer
• Pest
• Leafminer

Redbanded leafroller description, life cycle, damage, and control.

• Redbanded Leafroller
• Entomology
• Pest
• Insect
• Leafroller
• Insect Pest

San Jose scale description, life history, damage, and control.

• Quadraspidiotus Perniciosus
• San Jose Scale
• Scale

Lesser peachtree borer description, life history, damage, and control.

• Lesser Peachtree Borer
• Entomology
• Pest
• Borer

Comstock mealybug description, life history, damage, and control.

• Comstock Mealybug
• Pseudococcus Comstocki
• Entomology

Midge description, life history, and predation.

• Aphid
• Midge

White apple leafhopper description, life history, damage, and control.

• Apple
• Apple Production
• Entomology
• Pest
• Fruit Tree
• Leafhopper

Potato leafhopper description, life history, damage, and control.

• Vegetable Insect
• Potato Leafhopper
• Empoasca Fabae
• Leafhopper
• Potato

Insidious plant bug description, life history, and predation.

• Pest
• Insect
• Insect Pest

Lesser appleworm description, life history, damage, and control.

• Pest Management
• Apple
• Grapholita Prunivora
• Apple Production
• Fruit Tree
• Fruit Insect
• Worm

Predatory mite description, life history, monitoring, and effectiveness.

• Apple
• Neoseiulus Fallacis
• Predator Mites Apple
• Apple Production
• Fruit Tree
• Fruit Insect

Apple rust mite description, life history , damage, and control.

• Apple
• Apple Production
• Rust
• Entomology
• Mite
• Fruit Tree
• Fruit Insect

Variegated leafroller description, life cycle, damage, and control.

• Entomology
• Leafroller
• Insect Pest