Pest Management


The pest we face and how we manage them
For a complete listing go to Cornell's Website here
Category
Pest and what it looks like
Control Strategy
Material
Rate per application
Fungus

Sooty Blotch
Pruning to allow good air flow so fruit dries quickly
In extremely wet years a fungicide may necessary
Captan50W
2 lbs

Scab
The tough one. Four sprays a year using a sterol inhibitor combined with a protectant

Nova

Captan

4 oz.

2 lb.


Mildew
Can damage fruit and reduce production.
Controlled with scab sprays
(with scab)
Insects

Tarnish plant bug
Use an organophosphate at petal fall
Guthion
1 lb

Plum Curcurlio
Use an organophosphate at petal fall
(with TPB)

Rosy Aphids
Spray at pink with methomyl
Lannate
1.5 pints

Leaf rollers
A tough one.

Apple maggot
Use an organophosphate 7-10 days
after we catch our first adult on a stick ball
Guthion
1 lb
Micro-organisms

Fireblight
We prune when the symptoms appear.
Sprays have never worked for us.
NA
Arthropod

European Red Mite
Oil at 1/2" green
Miticide if populations exceed threshold to damage fruit or next years production.

Superior Oil

Pyramite

4 gallons

4 oz

Wildlife

Deer
DEC permit
(give me a call if your interested)
NA

Mice
Banded mousebait
applied just prior to snowfall
Good clean herbicide strip under the tree
treated cracked corn
5 lb

Rabbits
We have several hunters in the area that enjoy
running their hounds
(in season of course)
NA