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Identification
and confirmation: Wind injury
Wind injury can often be confused with thrips damage. In both cases, fruit is scarred. Thrips, however,
cause a ring or partial ring of scarred tissue around the stem on fruit skin. Fruit damaged by wind is
not marked with a ring around the stem. |
Fruit
damaged by wind
Ring
around tissue caused by citrus thrips
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