Leaves

Stems/Twigs/Smaller Branches

Larger Branches or Trunk

Roots and ground line area

Fruit





CRABAPPLE - Malus spp.


AFFECTING LEAVES:

CONDITION
CAUSE
Large holes chewed in leaves
Redhumped caterpillar (Schizura concinna) , or Forest tent caterpillar.
Silken tents produced
Western tent caterpillar or Fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea)
Caterpillar living within a case
Snailcase bagworm (Apterona helix)
Terminal leaves curled and tied together with silk
Fruittree leafroller or Obliquebanded leafroller
Skeletonized leaves
Apple and thorn skeletonizer (Choreutis pariana) or Apple flea beetle (Phyllotreta spp.)
"Shothole" feeding wounds in leaf, usually with sucker growth
Apple flea beetle (Phyllotreta spp.)
Raised leafmines
Western tentiform leafminer
White powdery material on upper or lower surface of leaf
Powdery mildew
Pale green or yellow leaves
Iron chlorosis
Rust orange spots
Juniper rusts
Black mold on surface of leaf
Apple scab (Venturia inaequalis)
Rusty blisters or scabby patches on leaves
Blister mites
Bronzing of leaves
Two-spotted spidermite or McDaniel spider mite
Curling distortions of new growth in spring
Rosy apple aphid
Blackened and wilted leaves
Fireblight (Erwinia amylovora)

AFFECTING TWIGS AND SMALLER BRANCHES:

CONDITION
CAUSE
Twigs shredded by a line of multiple punctures
Cicada oviposition wounds
Blackened, wilting, and crooked tips
Fireblight (Erwinia amylovora)
Black beetle tunneling, with small exit holes
Shothole borer
Scales on twigs
Oystershell scale or European fruit lecnium
Cottony insects on twigs
Woolly apple aphid or Mealbugs
Discolored areas, dead bark containing small pimple-like fruiting bodies (pycnidia)
Cytospora canker (Valsa spp., Leucostoma spp.)

AFFECTING LARGER BRANCHES OR TRUNK:

CONDITION
CAUSE
Boring into trunk
Flatheaded appletree borer - (Chrysobothris mali)
Bark beetle tunneling, small exit holes
Shothole borer
Cottony insects on trunk and/or roots
Woolly apple aphid
Internal decay and/or shelf-like fruiting structures (conks)
Decay fungus
Wilting and dieback of portions of tree, originating from roots
Verticillium wilt (Verticillium spp.)

AFFECTING GROUND LINE AREA OF TRUNK:

CONDITION
CAUSE
Discolored tissue under bark at ground line
Phytophthora root rot (Phytophthora spp.)
Galls at ground line
Crown gall

AFFECTING ROOTS:

CONDITION
CAUSE
White root decay and white mycelial fans between bark and wood
Armillaria root disease (Armillaria spp.)

AFFECTING FRUIT:

CONDITION
CAUSE
Tunneling in fruit
Codling moth (Cydia pomonella)
Scarring or scabbing of fruit
Fruittree leafroller, Hail injury, or Apple scab (Venturia inaequalis)


Missoula County Extension Office; Missoula, Montana 59808 - Updated for 2006