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Pest Management
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The pest we face and
how we manage them
For a complete listing go to Cornell's Website here |
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Category
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Pest and what it looks like
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Control Strategy
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Material
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Rate per application
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Fungus
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 Sooty Blotch |
Pruning to allow good air flow so fruit dries quickly
In extremely wet years a fungicide may necessary |
Captan50W
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2 lbs
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 Scab |
The tough one. Four sprays a year using a sterol inhibitor
combined with a protectant
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Nova Captan |
4 oz. 2 lb. |
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 Mildew |
Can damage fruit and reduce production.
Controlled with scab sprays |
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(with scab)
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Insects
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 Tarnish plant bug |
Use an organophosphate at petal fall
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Guthion
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1 lb
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 Plum Curcurlio |
Use an organophosphate at petal fall
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(with TPB)
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 Rosy Aphids |
Spray at pink with methomyl
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Lannate
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1.5 pints
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 Leaf rollers |
A tough one.
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 Apple maggot |
Use an organophosphate 7-10 days
after we catch our first adult on a stick ball |
Guthion
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1 lb
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Micro-organisms
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 Fireblight |
We prune when the symptoms appear.
Sprays have never worked for us. |
NA
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Arthropod
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 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 |
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Wildlife
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 Deer |
DEC permit
(give me a call if your interested) |
NA
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 Mice |
Banded mousebait
applied just prior to snowfall Good clean herbicide strip under the tree |
treated cracked corn
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5 lb
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 Rabbits |
We have several hunters in the area that enjoy
running their hounds (in season of course) |
NA
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