Pest Reference

Each pest entry includes scientific name, affected crops, signs of damage, and IPM (integrated pest management) controls. The site favors low-spray approaches where they are effective; conventional sprays are noted but not the default recommendation.

• Codling Moth (Cydia pomonella)

  Affects: apple, pear.

• Plum Curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar)

  Affects: apple, peach, plum european, plum japanese, cherry sweet, cherry sour, apricot.

• Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica)

  Affects: apple, peach, plum european, plum japanese, cherry sweet.

• Spotted Wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii)

  Affects: cherry sweet, cherry sour, fig, mulberry.

• Oriental Fruit Moth (Grapholita molesta)

  Affects: peach, plum european, plum japanese, apricot.

• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys)

  Affects: peach, apple, pear.

• Pear Psylla (Cacopsylla pyricola)

  Affects: pear.

• Cherry Fruit Fly (Rhagoletis cingulata)

  Affects: cherry sweet, cherry sour.

• Fig Beetle (Cotinis mutabilis)

  Affects: fig.

• Root-Knot Nematode (Meloidogyne species)

  Affects: fig, peach, plum japanese.

• Persimmon Borer (Sannina uroceriformis)

  Affects: persimmon american, persimmon asian.

• Leaf-Footed Bug (Leptoglossus species)

  Affects: pomegranate.

• Pawpaw Peduncle Borer (Talponia plummeriana)

  Affects: pawpaw.