Grass and vegetation against the trunk of a stone fruit tree provides a humid and secluded place for female borer moths to lay their eggs. Grass against a trunk also increases the likelihood of string ...

Peach tree borer is the most common serious insect pest in fruit trees such as yours. This insect is a problem on members of the genus Prunus that set a "stone type" fruit. This includes peaches, ...

Q: My peach tree is 2 years old. I’m seeing globs of sap on its trunk. What should I do? A: It appears that it’s being attacked by peach tree borers. They are a major threat to homeowner peach trees, ...

Dear Neil: My peach tree is 2 years old. I’m seeing globs of sap on its trunk. What should I do? A: It appears that it’s being attacked by peach tree borers. They are a major threat to homeowner peach ...

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Common tree pests fall into three main categories: defoliators such as tent caterpillars that eat leaves, borers like emerald ash borer that attack the wood of the tree, and sap suckers like scale ...

After the very early morning rain we had on Jan. 18 and nighttime air temperatures near 45 degrees, I saw wet, brown ooze from the exposed upper branches of a sunburned peach tree the next day. The ...

Q: I have a peach tree that is about 4 years old and it has been producing some really good peaches. Last year, it developed peach leaf curl in the spring. That summer, it didn’t produce much fruit, ...

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