California Agriculture (Jan 1956)

Flare-up of oriental fruit moth: Costly outbreak of pest of peach orchards in 1954 resulted in co-operative research in 1955 to develop control program

  • F Summers,
  • L Brown,
  • J Foott,
  • J Quail

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1

Abstract

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An outbreak of Oriental fruit moth— not Oriental fruit fly—caused appreciable crop damage in a small number of peach orchards near Kingsburg during the harvest of 1954. This was the first damaging flare-up of Oriental fruit moth —OFM—in the main peach belt of California.