Pest on crop
Plum Curculio on sweet cherry
Conotrachelus nenuphar
Native weevil that lays eggs in young stone and pome fruit, causing characteristic crescent-shaped scars.
- Pest
- Plum Curculio
- Scientific name
- Conotrachelus nenuphar
- Crop
- Sweet Cherry
- Total hosts
- 8
Plum Curculio on sweet cherry
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Signs on sweet cherry
- ▸ Crescent-shaped scars on young fruit
- ▸ Premature fruit drop
- ▸ Larvae visible in fallen fruit
IPM controls
- ✓ Tarp-and-jar shaking at petal fall
- ✓ Surround (kaolin) sprays
- ✓ Prompt removal of fallen fruit
- ✓ Targeted sprays at petal fall
Other crops affected by plum curculio
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