Peach Tree Borer is the most destructive insect pest of peach, cherry, plum, nectarine, apricot and other stone fruits. It also attacks the flowering forms of these trees.

Peach tree borer is so prevalent locally that I recommend treating for it every year. Sooner or later, the tree will get it, and it’s best to prevent infestation in the first place.

Gumming or oozing on the lower 12 inches of the trunk or at the soil line is most likely caused by the Greater peachtree borer, and that’s probably what has happened with your tree.

Get some tips on how to protect your trees from the peach tree borer. Get some tips on how to protect your trees from the peach tree borer. Skip to content. NOWCAST News 9 Tonight.

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story ...

Your second issue sounds much like peach tree borers. The larvae of a different species of moth, peach tree borers attack not only peach trees, but also plums, cherries, nectarines and apricots.

Female adult peach tree borer moths can lay up to 400 eggs on the bark and in trunk cracks down near the tree base of stone fruits, sometimes in the soil. Depending on where you are in New Mexico ...

Ask a Master Gardener: Borer problems and tips for late season planting. November 10, 2019 at 6:05 a.m. | Updated November 10, 2019 at 1:48 p.m.

Peach tree borer or crown borer is an insect that is a problem with all stone-fruit type plants such as peaches, plums, cherries and apricots and their ornamental relatives.