Fruit Trees, Shrubs, and Vines

FRUIT TREES, SHRUBS, AND VINES

PESTS, DISEASES, AND TREATMENT

APPLE TREES

PESTS

Plum curculios-Sevin (treat active beetles/following spring)

Tent caterpillars-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray

Apple maggots, adult flies-Bonide Borer-Miner Killer (June-September)

Leafrollers-Sevin (following spring)

Scale-horticultural oil (dormant season)/Sevin (treat crawlers after bloom)

Aphids-Sevin (at onset of infestation)

Codling moths- Sevin – (at onset/following spring)

Pacific flathead borers- Bonide Borer-Miner Killer (at onset)

DISEASES

Black Rot-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (at onset/following spring)

Sooty blotch, fly speck-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (following spring)

Scab-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (following spring)

Cedar apple rust-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (following spring)

Bacterial ooze-Liquid Copper (following spring)/bactericide with

Streptomycin (spring flowering)

Powdery mildew- Ortho RosePride Disease Concentrate (at onset/following

spring)

Fire blight- Bonide Liquid Copper

BRAMBLES (Blackberry, Raspberry, Boysenberry)

PESTS

Mites- lime sulfur (spring)/Kelthane (at first notice of damage)

Borers-Malathion (following Spring)

DISEASES

Leaf spot-Bonide Liquid Copper (August)

Bonide Liquid Copper mixed with horticultural oil (after harvest)

Anthracnose-lime sulfur (early spring) followed by Captan (spring)

Powdery Mildew-lime-sulfur (fall and spring)

Fruit Rot (Botrytis)-Captan (bloom thru harvest)

Cane and leaf rust-Bonide Liquid Copper (fall and spring)

BLUEBERRIES

PESTS

Fruit worms-Bonide Thuricide

Blueberry maggot (blueberry fruit fly)-Malathion (following July)

Plum curculio-Malathion (following spring immediately after bloom)

Leafrollers-Malathion

Scale-Malathion (active young)/horticultural oil (following spring)

DISEASES

Mummy berry-No chemical control

Fruit rot-Captan (following spring)

Botrytis blossom blight-Captan (at first sign of disease)

CHERRY TREES

PESTS

Cherry fruit flies and maggots-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (following year)

Plum curculio-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (when beetles are active and

the following spring)

Oriental fruit moth-Sevin

Peachtree borer larvae-Sevin

Scale-horticultural oil (when dormant)/Sevin (use on crawlers after bloom)

Aphids, cherry worms, leaf rollers Japanese Beetles-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray

DISEASES

Bacterial canker-Liquid Copper (Fall)

Powdery mildew-lime-sulfur (when mildew appears)

Blossom and shoot blight, fruit rot-Ortho Garden Disease Control or Bonide

Fruit Tree Spray (at signs of disease/following spring)

Leaf spot-Ortho Garden Disease Control or Bonide Fruit Tree Spray

CURRANTS

PESTS

Aphids-Sevin

DISEASES

Powdery mildew-sulfur (Spring)

FIG TREES

PESTS

Scale-Malathion (early to mid-summer)/horticultural oil (when dormant)

DISEASES

Rust-Bonide Liquid Copper

Mosaic virus/fig mites-horticultural oil (winter)

GRAPES

PESTS

Grape berry moth-Sevin or Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (following spring)

Grape flea beetle, aphids, leafhopper-Sevin

Spider mites-Malathion

DISEASES

Black rot-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (following spring)

Anthracnose-lime-sulfur (following spring)

Botrytis-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (at first sign of disease)

Powdery Mildew-sulfur (at first sign of disease/following spring)

Downy mildew-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (at first sign of disease/following

Spring)

PEACH TREES

PESTS

Plum curculio and larva-Sevin or Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (when beetles are

Active/following spring)

Peach tree twig borer-Sevin dust ( use on moths/following spring)

Oriental fruit moth larva-Sevin dust (use on moths/following spring)

Spider mites, aphids-horticultural oil

Scale-horticultural oil (dormant period in spring)/Sevin (late spring to

kill crawlers)

Peachtree borer larva and pupa-Sevin (at onset/following spring)

DISEASES

Scab-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (following spring)

Shot-hole fungus-Ortho Garden Disease Control (fall)

Leaf Spot-Liquid Copper (spring)

Leaf curl-Ortho Garden Disease Control (fall and or spring)

Blight, fruit rot-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray ( at first sign of disease/

following spring)

Bacterial canker-Liquid Copper (fall)

PEAR TREES

PESTS

Plum curculio larva-Sevin (when beetles are active/following spring)

Codling moth-Sevin (onset of damage/following spring)

Spider mites-Sevin (first sign of mites)/horticultural oil (fall)

Pearleaf blister mite-lime-sulfur (fall)/horticultural oil (following

Spring)

Leafroller-Sevin (following spring)

Pearslugs-Sevin ( at onset of infestation)

Scale-horticultural oil (dormant period)/Sevin (spring to kill crawlers)

DISEASES

Scab-Mancozeb fungicide

Fire blight-Liquid Copper (following spring)/bactericide with streptomycin

(during bloom period)

Fabraea leaf spot-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (at onset/following spring)

PLUM TREES

PESTS

Plum curculio-Malathion (when beetles are active/following spring)

Spider mites-horticultural oil

Aphids-Sevin (at onset)/horticultural oil (spring dormant period)

Peach twig borer-horticultural oil (dormant season)/Sevin (following

spring)

Oriental fruit moth-Sevin (use to kill moths/following spring)

Scale-horticultural oil ( midsummer when crawlers active/ dormant period)

DISEASES

Blossom blight, fruit rot-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (at onset/following spring)

Leaf spot-Liquid Copper (spring)

Black knot-Bonide Fruit Tree Spray (following spring after black knot has

been pruned out of tree)