What's causing my asian pear blossoms to disappear?

Anyone know what’s damaging or eating my asian pear blossoms?

Just went to go look at bloom progress and found about 50% of the flower heads missing. Not sure if its insect, disease or a normal process - almost looks like it got burned off completely. The asian pear was just transitioning from bloom to petal fall.

I know I have some blisters mites but I didn’t think they caused damage this bad.

I’ve seen squirrels eat serviceberry blossoms (amalanchier). Caterpillars will eat also.

@dimitri_7a,
Besides squirrels, it could be birds.

Birds will eat blooms from my Oneal blueberry…

Thanks for the advice guys, i was worried it was fire blight but it didn’t look like any photos i saw online.

Looks like i am going to have to bag blossoms or something.

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To put a positive spin on it, you won’t have to thin as much this year.:wink:

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