Year-Round IPM Program Pages
This year-round IPM program covers the major pests of pear.
About Postharvest
What should you be doing during this time?
Check top shoots for
- European red mite
- Pear psylla nymphs and eggs
- Pear rust mite
- Pear sawfly (pearslug)
- Pear scab lesions on leaves
- Pearleaf blister mite damage on leaves
- Predatory mites
- Webspinning spider mites
Sample fruit left on trees for codling moth and codling moth damage.
Manage orchard floor vegetation:
- Survey winter annual weeds and keep records (example late-fall weed survey form ).
- Manage weeds in rows with pre- or postemergence herbicides or nonchemically.
- Consider seeding a cover crop by mid-October.