Southeastern Apple Production

ENTOMOLOGY

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

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
Obliquebanded leafroller	Codling moth	Green apple aphid / Spirea aphid	Dogwood borer
Plum curculio	Green fruit worm	Green June beetle
Redbanded leafroller	Lesser apple worm	Japanese beetle
San Jose scale	Oriental fruit moth	Potato leafhopper
Tarnished plant bug		Rosy apple aphid
Tufted apple bud moth		Two-spotted spider mite
Variegated leafroller		Spotted tentiform leafminer (tunneling)
		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: anne_napier@ncsu.edu

Updated May 16, 2008