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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.

Wind damaged fruit showing scars on rind; . Credit: Jack Kelly Clark, UC IPM
Fruit damaged by wind. Credit: Jack Kelly Clark, UC IPM
Close-up of maturing fruit with the injured area of tissue moved outwards and forming an irregular ring-like pattern; Tulare Co., . Credit: Jack Kelly Clark, UC IPM
Ring around tissue caused by citrus thrips. Credit: Jack Kelly Clark, UC IPM
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