How to Manage Pests

• Fertilizing
• First-year pruning
• Harvesting and storage
• Planting

• Pruning
• Sanitation
• Site selection

• Training
• Watering

Invasive Pests

• Spotted wing drosophila

For more information on these pests, see Exotic and Invasive Pests.

Invertebrates

• Aphids
• Armored scales
  • San Jose scale
• Borers
  • American plum borer
  • Pacific flatheaded borer
  • Peach twig borer
  • Peachtree borer
  • Shothole borer
• Boxelder bug
• Citrus cutworm
• Clearwing moths
• Earwigs
• Fall cankerworm
• Fall webworm
• Grasshoppers
• Green fruit beetle
• Green fruitworms
• Leafrollers
• Lygus bugs
• Nematodes
• Pear sawfly (Pearslug, Cherryslug)
• Redhumped caterpillar
• Soft scales
  • Black scale
  • Calico scale
  • European fruit lecanium
  • Kuno scale
• Spider mites
• Spotted wing drosophila
• Stink bugs
• Tent caterpillars

Invertebrates (continued)

• Western flower thrips
• Western tussock moth

Diseases

• Armillaria root rot (Oak root fungus)
• Bacterial canker and blast
• Bacterial leaf scorch (similar to Oleander leaf scorch)
• Brown rot
• Cherry buckskin (X-disease)
• Cherry leaf spot
• Crown gall
• Cytospora canker
• Phytophthora root and crown rot
• Powdery mildew
• Verticillium wilt
• Virus diseases
• Wood decay
  

Environmental disorders

• Cherry crinkle
• Deep suture
• Frost injury
• Fruit cracking
• Fruit doubling and spurs
• Nutrient deficiencies
• Oil burn
• Sunburn

Vertebrates

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