Symptoms of damage
- Beetle feed on leaves
- Young grubs bore into and feed inside bark and make irregular galleries
- Gum globules appear at the points of entrance on bark
Management
- Collect and destroy the damaged shoots and branches
- Swab trunk with carbaryl 50 WP at 0.2%
- Spray malathion 0.1% .
- Field release of some natural enemies like gray field ant , Formica aerata, chalcid wasps, Copidosoma (=Paralitomastix) varicornis and Hyperteles lividus,
- Spray application of Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) products have been effective if applied when larvae are first noticed and before they tunnel into twigs, buds or fruit.
- Spray application of following insecticides
| Timing | Product |
| pink (peach) | Azinphos-methyl (Guthion or Sniper 50WP) or phosmet (Imidan 50%WP) |
| petal-fall (peach and apricot) | Guthion, Imidan |
| petal-fall peach only | or deltamethrin (Decis 5 EC) |
| husk-fall (apricot) | Guthion, Imidan |
| summer (apricot and peach) | Guthion, Imidan |
SOURCE
www.ipm.ucdavis.edu, www.apidweb.com, ag.arizona.edu