Pest on crop
Pear Psylla on pear
Cacopsylla pyricola
Pear's primary pest, sucking sap and producing honeydew that supports sooty mold.
- Pest
- Pear Psylla
- Scientific name
- Cacopsylla pyricola
- Crop
- Pear
- Total hosts
- 1
Pear Psylla on pear
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Signs on pear
- ▸ Sticky honeydew on leaves
- ▸ Sooty mold growth on fruit and foliage
- ▸ Leaf curling and yellowing
IPM controls
- ✓ Dormant oil applications
- ✓ Encouraging natural predators (lacewings, anthocorid bugs)
- ✓ Kaolin clay sprays
- ✓ Targeted insecticide at first generation
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