fruit mummies

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Mummyberry in Michigan Blueberries
... years to come. But most growers in Michigan are more concerned about the loss of fruit from fruit infections. Symptoms Shoot blight is the first symptom seen after dormancy has broken ... infected shoots then infect the flowers. The disease overwinter in a psuedoscloratia called mummies, formed from the infected fruit. Ascospores of the fungus are dispersed from mushroom-like apothecia that form on ...
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Explore Cornell - Home Gardening - Managing Insect Pests in Vegetable Gardens
... for crops. Crops such as cucumbers, eggplants, melons, and squash need pollinating insects to set fruit, so remove row covers before plants begin to flower. Commercial covers are made from ... on or parasitize pests. Small wasps, for example, parasitize aphids, leaving bloated gold to bronze "mummies." Immature lady beetles and lacewings, which look like tiny alligators, also frequent gardens. Other " ...
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Fruits and Nuts -- October Tips
... plastic bags or in plastic-lined, cardboard boxes in a fruit cellar. Cardboard boxes and plastic bags must be perforated to ... spring just before bloom produced up to 60 percent more fruit than plants given the conventional straw or hay mulch cover, ... up home orchard and small-fruit plantings. Sanitation is essential for good maintenance. Dried fruits or "mummies" carry disease organisms through the ...
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... trees and kill affected limbs. The fungus overwinters in cankers and occasionally on mummified fruit. Spores are produced during moist periods throughout the growing season and are wind blown ... sunken. Infected fruit may eventually shrivel into mummies and remain attached to the tree. Black rot management includes removal and disposal of cankered limbs and dead branches. Dispose of fallen fruit at ...
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