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You can bag the fruit. Apples are easy if the tree isn’t too tall and you can use ziploc bags. Peaches are harder since the fruit may rot in the bag. People use clemson bags or other porous bagging material to allow the peaches to dry out.

Here is a study on the effectiveness of bagging apples.

https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef218

And a thread on bagging fruit (one of several threads on the forum).

Bagging fruits on the tree, for insect and disease protection

I posted this on another forum, but I think it would be more useful here. I will summarize first, then the details follow. I have not done this method. The plan is to do so this year for most of my fruits. This is a good time to think about bagging fruit, because it is best done when they are very small, preferably smaller than a dime. Bagging fruits on the tree - for multiple types of fruits - has been shown to reduce disease and insect infestation significantly. In some other countries,…