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Periodical cicada
Adults are wedge-shaped, nearly black, with red eyes and red-orange wing veins. The clear wings are held tent-like over the body.
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Japanese beetle
Japanese beetles can be present from June through September. Japanese beetle adults are metallic green or greenish bronze with reddish wing covers and several white spots near the abdomen tip and along the sides. Larvae are larger C-shaped grubs that live in the soil.
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Root-lesion nematode
Root-lesion nematodes are microscopic, migratory endoparasites that feed on the root systems of many crops. Affected trees appear stunted, may exhibit chlorosis or yellowing of the leaves, and have poor yields; young trees may be killed.
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Click beetles
The click beetle is dark-colored its body is hard and elongated it has a characteristic pair of spurs and sometimes colorful markings on its thorax.
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Green stink bug
Stink bug adults have a broad, flattened, shield-shaped body and a narrow head. The green stink bug is uniformly grass-green.
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Peach tree short life (PTSL)
Trees in their third to sixth year show a sudden wilt and collapse of new blossoms and death of branches, with tree death following within weeks of initial symptoms. The bark of affected trees appears reddish and water-soaked and gum exuding from these tissues often has a "sour sap" odor.
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Cigar casebearer
Adult is dark gray with fringed wings. The small yellowish larva of the cigar casebearer has a black head and builds and hides in a cigar-shaped shelter that it carries with it while feeding or attaches to leaves and branches of apple trees.
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Rosy apple aphid
Populations arise from the overwintered stem mothers, which are wingless and purplish in color, and form into colonies of rosy-purple nymphs with dark cornicles.
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Pale apple leafroller
The adult is elongated and dull gray. The larva is creamy white with an amber head, which turns black in the penultimate instar.
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Redhumped caterpillar
The adult is a grayish brown moth. The larva is yellow with a red head and is lined longitudinally with orangish, black, and white stripes.
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Powdery mildew of apricot, nectarine, peach and plum
Infection appears as white circular lesions of patches of powdery growth on either side of the leaf, or on the terminal ends of new shoot growth. Severely infected leaves curl upward or blister, may be stunted, but eventually drop as infection progresses.
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Prunus necrotic ringspot
Individual branches or the entire tree shows delayed budbreak or foliation, stunted wavy leaves, and shortened blossom pedicels in spring. Leaves develop chlorotic spots, lines, or rings as they emerge.
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Apple leaf (curling) midge
The adult is a tiny dark brown fly, and the larva is a yellow-white maggot with a reddish tinge.
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Variegated leafroller
Adult is grayish magenta with dark brown bands on the middle and end of the forewing. Larvae are pale green with yellowish green heads.
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Dock sawfly
The adult is bluish black with red legs. The larva is a smooth velvety green worm with white legs and a dark head.
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European apple sawfly
The adult looks similar to a small, orange-brown wasp with the ventral side and legs orange in color. It has transparent wings with many veins. The egg, oval and translucent, is inserted into the receptacle of the flower.
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Spotted tentiform leafminer
The adult is a tiny beige moth with heavily fringed wings striped with golden brown and white bands. Eggs are laid individually on the undersurface of the leaves.
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European red mite
Adult female European red mites are less than 0.5 mm and dark red with eight legs. Adult males are smaller than the females and have a pointed abdomen. Males are usually dull green to brown.
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American brown rot
American brown rot is common on apricot, peach, nectarine, plum and cherry.
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Widestriped green fruitworm
The adult has bluish or steel gray wings marked with inconspicuous mottled patches.