Picture is a bit atypical of stink bug. Typical is heavier marking near
stem. Many pencil eraser sized marks, seldom with big sunken areas, seldom
with the 'colorful' marking that two fruits. Drought mark, bitter pit,
thinning/tractor/ladder/wind bruises all have a grey/beige/brown/black layer
of
Hail injury from at storm in early to mid-season? What are the internal
symptoms when cut perpendicularly through the lesions?
On Oct 7, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Jon Clements jmcext...@gmail.com
wrote:
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Looks mostly like stink bug. Need to look at a cut straight into the fruit
through the injury. Stink bug injury will be deep and have the stylet marks,
maybe whitish to drying.
Dean
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Dean Polk,
Hi Jon: the sunken dark green spots are definitely cork spots. Peel the fruit
and you will see a brown corky area. Bitter pit usually does not go deep and
the spots are mostly black. I am not sure of the brown spots. They look
different from cork. The reason I say that is that the brown
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A little more info, I have been struggling for awhile now to attempt to
identify similar symptoms. We do of course have brown and green stink bug
here, and apparently increasing signs of BMSB activity. (But not
necessarily in orchard.) I have been told that bitter pit is typically more
superficial
