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anyone know whats laying these eggs?

15 years ago

Something is laying eggs on many of my apple tree leaves. The eggs are rust colored, and are grouped in round circles on the leaves. if you run your finger across the eggs, the eggs feel as if they are slightly below the surface of the leaf? any ideas what insect this is? (its not ladybug eggs)

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Scott F Smith
15 years ago
That looks like cedar apple rust to me, a disease. That amount is not worth worrying about but if it gets a lot worse you may need to treat it.

Scott
lycheeluva
Original Author
15 years ago
No- these r definitly eggs of some type. Unfortunately, my camera can't take sufficiently high definition pictures to show the minute eggs. i guess i'll just have to wait and see
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goodground
15 years ago
No-it's definetly Cedar Apple Rust!
jellyman
15 years ago
lycheeluva:

It may look like insect eggs, but that how the fungus known as cedar apple rust looks. Be grateful if it's not on your fruit. It is on a lot of mine this year due to cool weather, wind-blown rains, and poor spray conditions.

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lycheeluva
Original Author
15 years ago
ok- it seems i spoke in ignorance- sorry scott- i thought if it looks like eggs, its eggs! but i guess not!
so now i have cedar apple rust to add to peach leaf curl, bacterial spot- a shmorgasboard of fungal diseases. yay.
in fairness, the apple rust is not too bad- at least not yet.
wild_forager
15 years ago
I've got that too. Strangely the ants actaully seem to eat it. They come up and just munch on the rust spots. I'm not sure whats going on but it hasn't bothered the fruit yet.
lucky_p
15 years ago
I've not checked my apples, but was passing by the little mayhaws planted alongside the driveway yesterday morning, and almost every single fruit is affected with the hawthorn strain of the rust fungus - some were starting to push out those little telial horns or whatever they call the fruiting bodies. Plucked 'em off and discarded 'em, but I doubt that it'll have a significant effect on the cycle.
Michael
15 years ago
Last year, not knowing what CAR looked like, I made a rookie mistake and didn't do anything about it on my 2 yr old Jonafree tree. Big mistake! After becoming severely infected, it dropped almost all of it's leaves early and only put on about 6' of new shoot growth all season. Educate yourself as best you can as fast as you can if you like your trees as much as I like mine. There is an overwhelming wealth on the web, start by Googling 'cedar-apple rust. Good Luck!

Here is a link that might be useful: Apple Pathologies, West Virginia Univ

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