UTAH PESTS' Tree Fruit IPM Advisories are weekly emails (March - Sept.) that provide updates on current insect and disease sightings and outbreak predictions, and highlights upcoming concerns for tree fruit growers. 

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Last advisory of the season:  October 21:  fire blight, codling moth, coryneum blight, "Using Birds and Bats for Pest Management" 
September 11:  codling moth, peach twig borer, spider mites, cankers on stone fruits 
August 5:  codling moth, peach twig borer, western cherry fruit fly, coryneum blight, stink bug/lygus bug/earwigs, spider mites 
July 30:  information on natural enemies 
July 23:  codling moth, thrips on nectarine, iron deficiency, "New Pest Found on California Cherries" 
July 15:  woolly apple aphid, spider mites, earwigs, lygus bugs, stone fruit diseases, walnut husk fly, prionus root borer 
July 8:  codling moth, woolly apple aphid, cytospora canker, prionus root beetle, western cherry fruit fly 
June 24:  codling moth, San Jose scale, hail damage, coryneum blight, plant bugs 
June 17:  codling moth, pear psylla, peach powdery mildew, coryneum blight on  peach/nectarine/apricot, earwigs, cherry powdery mildew 
June 10:  codling moth, white apple leafhopper, peach twig borer, greater peachtree borer, western cherry fruit fly, "Pesticides and Rain" 
June 3:  fire blight, San Jose scale, peach twig borer, shothole, apple powdery mildew on peach, western cherry fruit fly, "New Cherry Pest Found in California," "Hail Damage" 
May 28:  codling moth, codling moth virus, woolly apple aphid, peach twig borer, cherry fruit fly  
May 20:  codling moth biofixes, spider mites, campylomma damage, white apple leafhopper, fruitworm and cankerworm, fire blight, "Thinning the Home Orchard," "EPA Enforces Worker Protection Standard" 
May 13:  codling moth biofixes and spray dates, brown mite, fire blight, peach leaf curl, coryneum blight 
May 6:  codling moth, western flower thrips, rosy apple aphid, fire blight, green peach aphid, campylomma 
April 28:  codling moth, cat-facing insects, fire blight 
April 22:  bud stages, powdery mildew, fire blight, oozing on stone fruits, "GF-120 for Residential Growers," "Using Surround for Organic Insect Suppression" 
April 15:  bud stages, codling moth, campylomma bug, "Commercial Growers:  Using GF-120 for Cherry Fruit Fly" 
April 10:  bud stages, codling moth traps, San Jose scale, rosy apple aphid, blister mites, western flower thrips, pear psylla, woolly apple aphid, "Tips for New Trees," "Understanding the Numbers in the Advisories" 
April 2:  bud stages, delayed dormant sraying:  fire blight, coryneum blight, peach twig borer; pruning backyard trees  
March 18:  pesticide updates, dormant and delayed dormant spray timings, pest monitoring supplies 

For questions or comments, please contact:

Marion Murray (click to send an email)
USU Extension IPM Project Leader
435-797-0776