PM, 100%. At this stage all you can do is fight and keep it from getting worse. I would spray with fungicides like Daconile and Neem Oil sprays. They are available both on HD and Lowes. Just follow the instructions.

Can you post a picture of what the symptoms look like or review the below link and see if any of their examples look like what you are seeing? Knowing exactly what you are seeing will help alot? What, if any, pesticides and/or fungicides do you spray on you trees? Ken Millbrook AL Here is a link that might be useful: Clemson Disease Management Web Site

Whatever it is it must have been a fruit borrer insect first and then fungus or parasite. I am in Toronto Canada and my young frost peach tree was doing this and it literally infected my hole tree. jelly was even coming out everywhere. It usually happened after a hard rainfall. someone gave me a suggestion not sure if it was this site. They said crush garlic tabs and mix with hydrogen peroxide. Here is what I did. I took lots of granulated garlic mixed with hydrogen peroxide and put in a large bowl. Then I placed my hand in the bowl and cupped some of the solution. I guess you could use a turkey baster as well. Placed it on the affected areas. If you are doing this while it is wet and jelly is coming out. The sugesstion was to take out the jelly with your hands before applying the garlic-hydrogen peroxided solution. Anyways I placed the solution on the affected areas and massaged the damaged area to try to get all the solution. The remaining solution I placed around the ground around the tree trunk. So far no more Jelly. You need to do this monthly until you see no more jelly. I believe the garlic-hydrogen peroxide solution killed whatever parisite was growing there. I believe a lot of fresh garlic finely crushed from a blender would possibly work too.

Oh. Interesting. Ok, so clearing it off isn't really solving the problem then. I don't see any frass or holes from an SVB, so, I'm not sure what's damaging the plants. Thank you for the information. I'll take a closer look to see what I can find today.