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| Hello, this year we had significant cherry maggot issues for the first time. This is surprising since we had not a decent cherry crop for the last 3 years. The only thing I can think of is we had a huge crop of early cherries which all split, the later varieties (Hudson and late sours) have significant maggot issues. I am wondering if the rotting early sweets brought them in?. How do you control cherry maggots? THanks, Eric |
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| It depends what they are from. Many pests can do this. I use MSU services when i have a problem. They have pest management services, ask an expert, and many online articles. http://www.cherries.msu.edu/ |
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- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 8:28
| I think the four most common maggots in cherries are the cherry fruit fly, the curculio, the oriental fruit moth, and the spotted wing drosophila (fruit fly). Treatment for each is different, so step one is dig out some worms and make an identification. My problem this spring I believe was cherry curculio, its a relative of the plum curculio. I sprayed Surround and I had about 10% infection, but without the Surround it surely would have been a lot worse. Scott |
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| "I think the four most common maggots in cherries are the cherry fruit fly..." And the black cherry fruit fly |
Here is a link that might be useful: Cherry fruit flys
This post was edited by Drew51 on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 8:43
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- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 9:20
| There are also several kinds of curculio that can infest cherries, I was just giving the categories above. Recently I thought I only had the plum curculio but PersianMD pointed out that it could be the cherry curculio and that matches some of the adults I found. There is not a lot of difference between CFF and BCFF or between the different curculios. Scott |
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- Posted by spartan-apple (My Page) on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 10:55
| I have 4 cherry trees. Once I found a maggot in one while pitting. That was enough for me. Now I always make my last spraying for curculio/fruit fly This works for me! I have not found a maggot since. |
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| Yeah that is good stuff, anybody know where to get 1 pound bags? I love killing bugs! I never purchased any as I could not find any smaller than 5 pounds. |
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- Posted by franktank232 z5 WI (My Page) on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 13:15
| Here is a question then.. What if i eat the larvae? Surely i won't turn into a curculio? I've been eating Evans sour cherries, and every now and again i'll find a larvae (have no idea which one)... i'm pretty sure its safe because over the years, i'm sure i've ate a few. I also eat a lot of bugs while biking. Protein..high quality bug protein...can't be cheap :) |
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| Yeah it is probably good for you. We might even want to grow cherries for the larvae harvest! |
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| Problem is the little decay that sets in, otherwise, I wouldn't care about the worms. Some fruits like mulberries seem covered with very tiny bugs moving around the fruit, but no effect to the quality of fruit, so is pretty easy to gobble them up if don't stare too long. |
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