Discovering the Apple Borer with Michael Phillips

Probing the flesh of the trunk in search of the borer and a discussion of neem oil and trunk treatment

[@namentatic4978]

My apple tree were attacking woodpeckers. They were not beetles, I'm sure, and they are making circular holes in shape of parallel rings on my tree's log. Today I have sprayed it with mixture of the neem oil, and will watch it. I sprayed also ground around my tree, if some insects are there. Nice video. Thanks.

[@KidguY27]

I have an Apple, peach, cherry, plum and 2 pear trees. My plum tree and my pear trees look great. The Apple and peach trees suffer from the curled leaves. The cherry tree suffered from the orange gelatin. All of my fruit has had the boring worms in it. Can you please help me identify which type of pest I have? I’m worried I have the Apple borer in my cherry tree because of the orange gelatin and there’s actually a big chunk missing near the base where it’s rotted away and I thought this was root rot and decaying from me bumping the tree with a lawn mower or getting it too wet or some shit and idk what to do because it’s in ALL my fruit every year.

[@juliehenderson1672]

Fabulous explanation!

[@hunterjones1850]

Michael has and uses holistic orcharding to fullest

[@KidguY27]

Neem oil hasn’t been working as a deterrent for Japanese beetles. I’m using it at the recommended concentration. Should I be going to a higher concentration? I don’t want to hurt the leaves on my grape vines but by the time the beetles are done the grape vines’ leaves are just skeletons.

[@thepincushionman7063]

23:00 mixing concentration