By Jwilliams
United Kingdom 
last year every fruit on my Victoria plum tree was infected with tiny white maggots. Each fruit had a pin size hole in it and when opened contained a maggot against the stone. What can I do to prevent the same thing happening this year?
8 Feb, 2011
Answers
Unless you want to spray your fruit with insecticide then the answer is to buy a Plum Moth trap from any decent garden supplying outlet (Wilkinsons sell them). Hang the trap in your Plum tree according to the info on the packet and your maggots will be very much reduced in number.
8 Feb, 2011
Thanks, that's usefull. Can you recomend an insecticide and at what stage should I spray?
8 Feb, 2011
Aarrgghh! Sorry, Jwilliams! I thought that I was answering the previous question. I don't know how I got mixed up.
I would have helped you, too, but we don't get Plum Moth here in Arizona...yet...I hope!
9 Feb, 2011
Jwilliams, do you really want to eat fruit that you have sprayed with insecticide? Much better to use the traps.
9 Feb, 2011
Cannot help with insecticides, never used them on fruit trees.
9 Feb, 2011
Me neither and would not want to do so... If you want to go that route ask at your local garden centre but read exactly what you are going to be putting on your plums and therefore eating.
9 Feb, 2011
I saw these plum moth traps on Monday, they are about £7.
9 Feb, 2011
That's what I'd go for Volunteer
9 Feb, 2011
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