Year-Round IPM Program Pages
This year-round IPM program covers the major pests of pear.
About Harvest
What should you be doing during this time?
Check fruit for feeding damage caused by
- Codling moth
- Katydids
- Mealybugs (grape, obscure)
- Obliquebanded leafroller
- Pear rust mite
- Pear scab lesions (primary or secondary)
- Pearleaf blister mite
- Plant bugs (western boxelder bug, lygus bugs, stink bugs)
- San Jose scale
- New or unusual damage or pests
Continue checking codling moth traps through mid-September in mating-disruption and conventional orchards.