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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

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

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

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

• Fruit
• Entomology
• Pest
• Moth
• Insect

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

• Codling Moth
• Entomology
• Pest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Lithophane Antennata
• Pest
• Fruit Insect
• Worm

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

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

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

• Phyllonoryceter Blancardella
• Spotted Tentiform Leafminer
• Pest
• Leafminer

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

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

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

• Lesser Peachtree Borer
• Entomology
• Pest
• Borer

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

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

Insidious plant bug description, life history, and predation.

• Pest
• Insect
• Insect Pest