Southeastern Apple Production

ENTOMOLOGY

Direct Pests	Indirect Pests	Beneficials
Listed by Type
Apple maggot	Dogwood borer	Black lady beetle (S. punctum)
Brown marmorated stink bug	European red mite	Insidious plant bug
Codling moth	Green apple aphid / Spirea aphid	Lacewing
Comstock mealy bug	Green June beetle	Lady beetle
Green fruit worm	Japanese beetle	Midge
Lesser appleworm	Potato leafhopper	Predatory mites
Obliquebanded leafroller	Rosy apple aphid	Syrphid fly
Oriental fruit moth	Spotted tentiform leafminer	Thrips
Plum curculio	Two-spotted spider mite
Redbanded leafroller	White apple leafhopper
San Jose scale	Woolly apple aphid
Tarnished plant bug
Tufted apple bud moth
Variegated leafroller

Listed by Damage
Fruit - Surface Feeding	Fruit - Tunneling	Leaves - Surface Feeding or Tunneling	Bark and Trunk Feeding
Comstock mealy bug	Apple maggot	European red mite	Comstock mealy bug
Brown marmorated stink bug	Codling moth	Green apple aphid / Spirea aphid	Dogwood borer
Obliquebanded leafroller	Green fruit worm	Green June beetle
Plum curculio	Lesser appleworm	Japanese beetle
Redbanded leafroller	Oriental fruit moth	Potato leafhopper
San Jose scale		Rosy apple aphid
Tarnished plant bug		Two-spotted spider mite
Tufted apple bud moth		Spotted tentiform leafminer (tunneling)
Variegated leafroller		White apple leafhopper
		Woolly apple aphid

Southeastern Apple Production
Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Extension Center
455 Research Drive
Mills River, NC 28759
Phone: 828.684.3562 ~ Fax: 828.684.8715
Email: jim_walgenbach@ncsu.edu

Web Crafters: Anne S. Napier and Steve Schoof
Email: steve_schoof@ncsu.edu

Updated March 14, 2013