Check fruit for damage throughout the season. The brown material on the outside of this fruit is frass (excrement), indicating a larva feeding on the seeds...
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Progression of spider mite damage to raspberry from lower leaves to top.
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Small colony of rosy apple aphids on the underside of an apple leaf.
Rosy apple aphids cause leaf-curling as they feed, and can distort the fruit.
Fire blight infections occur through the blossoms and turn tissue brown or black.
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When thrips feed inside the flower, the fruitlet is injured. As it grows, the fruit cracks and oozes gumming.
