Yup. PLC Peach Leaf Curl.
Okay, thanks. Nothing to do this year I guess?
Nit really. You can pick out damaged leaves. New leaves should emerge OK if your area us not too wet.
What?! Aphids go on roots too?!
Yeah, sucksâŚ
https://treefruit.wsu.edu/crop-protection/opm/woolly-apple-aphid/
M111 is supposed to be âresistantâ but it seems quite susceptible from what Iâve seen. They also seem to really like BUD9. So far I donât believe Iâve seen any on the roots or limbs of G.41 though.
For these I dug up and discovered were âinfestedâ I soaked the roots in water with some Imidacloprid. Not a fan of systemics but by the time these fruit it will hopefully be long gone.
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Sorry to hear. Did you notice a higher presence of them in the previous season?
They seem to be âever presentâ here. Iâve made my fingertips red/purple so many times. Iâm trying to do a better job of coating the tree trunks/limbs with a pyrethroid this year and so far Iâve seen fairly few of them. Fingers crossed⌠But, who knows whatâs going on underground? 
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we are seeing another explosion of the forest tent catipillar again right now. i sprayed the orchard and so far havent seen any. north western maine is seeing a explosion of spruce budworm moving in from Quebec. they have started spraying the woods 2 weeks ago with b.t to try and slow them down. last time it was a issue here it was in the late 70âs and everyone freaked out over it then. spruce is a important lumber source and that part of maine is all commercial forests.
May be a Neoneides muticus---->Stilt Bug.
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Although the legs can be seen in the Melon image, the long, knobbed, prominent antennae of the Stilt Bugs are not present.
More likely to be one of the many crane flies that have short, threadlike antennae.
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Anyone know what this is? A few leaves on my Comice Pear appear to have these orange egg clusters. Should I remove them?
I really only see them in the later half of the season. They seem to have a thing for my crimson crisp. I couldnât tell you the root beyond âsemi-dwarfâ.
I had to educate myself a bit more on them. Apparently being on the East Coast has advantages where Wooly Apple aphids are involved due to our native elm population. Thatâs the first time Iâve thought about the East Coast as preferable for Apple growing. I spent a bit of time manually smashing some colonies on my seedling. I may need to start farming them as a dye.
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Similar to what i found today. By the deformation on the back side of the leaf im betting its fungal not insect. Iâm going to hold on to it today and pull out my daughterâs microscope to take a better look later.
I think I see aecia of Pucciniales on your first picture, so a type of rust, possibly Gymnosporangium sp.
do you mean my picture or @busch83 's picture?
They look a little different to me, but Iâm new to insect and disease identification
A search of ârust disease on pearsâ will bring up images identical to both posters, above.
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