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Much of the information presented here was developed from A Pocket Guide for IPM Scouting in Stone Fruits by David Epstein, Larry J. Gut, Alan L. Jones and Kimberly Maxson-Stein. This publication is a pocket-sized guide for reference in the orchard. Purchase from MSU Extension (Publication E-2840. Also available in Spanish E-2840SP).
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Insect and mite pests

American plum borer
Aphids
Black cherry aphid
Black cherry fruit flies
Borers
Cherry fruit flies
Cherry fruitworm
Cherry leafminer
European red mite

Green fruitworm
Green peach aphid
Green stink bug
Japanese beetle
Lesser peachtree borer
Mineola moth
Mites
Peachtree borer
Pear slug/sawfly
Plum curcilio
Plum nursery mite

Plum rust mite
Sawfly
Speckled green fruitworm
Twospotted spider mite
Western flower thrips
White apple leafhopper

Beneficials, natural enemies

Agistemus fleschneri
Amblyseius fallacis


Assassin bug
Braconid wasp
Damsel bug

Diseases

   
Alternaria fruit rot
American brown rot
Armillaria root rot
Bacterial canker
Bacterial spot
Cherry leaf spot
Crown gall
European brown rot
Phytophthora root and crown rot
Powdery mildew of cherry
X-disease


Weeds

   
Annual sowthistle
Barnyardgrass
Blackseed plantain
Broadleaf dock
Broadleaf plantain
Buckhorn plantain
Bull thistle
Canada goldenrod
Canada thistle
Common chickweed
Common lambsquarters
Common mallow
Common milkweed
Common purslane
Common ragweed
Corn speedwell
Curly dock
Dandelion
Eastern black nightshade
Fall panicum
Field bindweed
Field horsetail
Giant foxtail
Giant ragweed
Green foxtail
Ground ivy
Hedge bindweed
Horsenettle
Horseweed
Ladysthumb
Large crabgrass
Purslane speedwell
Marestail
Mouseear chickweed
Pale smartweed
Pennsylvania smartweed
Perennial sowthistle
Poison ivy
Powell amaranth
Prickly lettuce
Prostrate pigweed
Quackgrass
Redroot pigweed
Scouringrush

Slender speedwell
Smooth crabgrass

Smooth pigweed
Spiny sowthistle
Spotted napweed
Swamp smartweed
Tumble pigweed
Velvetleaf
Venice mallow
Vetches
Virginia creeper
Western ragweed
Wild grapes
Wild mustard
Wild proso millet
Witchgrass
Yellow foxtail
Yellow nutsedge

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Funding support: Project GREEEN, the Michigan Cherry Committee and the MSU IPM Program and special project support from NC-IPM Center.

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07-10-09 Web developed by: J.N. Landis

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