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Brown rot fungi, Monilinia spp., is the most common and most damaging disease of beach plum. The blossom blight phase occurs in spring ...

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... and the fruit rot phase occurs in late summer.

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The beach plum's most serious insect pest is the plum gouger, Anthonomous scutellaris. It is similar to plum curculio, and makes a hole in fruit as seen in the seeds shown above.

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Minor pests include plum pockets which deform the fruit ...

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... and peach leaf curl, both caused by a Taphrina spp.fungus.

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Black knot, a fungal disease, affects beach plum and other stone fruit.

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Aphids, such as Hysteroneura setariae, may be controlled naturally by predatory insects like the "lady bug" shown here.

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Red humped apple moth caterpillars, Schizura comcinna, can defoliate plants.

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Tent caterpillars also can infest beach plums.