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I don't know whether anyone else has been squishing pirate bugs ( anthocorids) when they find them on young leaves and buds on apple trees, but until today I have, thinking that they must be causing damage, not least because they seem to be found on damaged leaves. How wrong I've been. 
Integrated Fruit Management - Photo Gallery - Biological control (photos)
To make it worse, there has usually been one adult policing each of the terminal leaf buds on my seedling apple trees, and I had become pretty adept at search and destroy.
I guess It's a case of correlation not meaning causation.
Integrated Fruit Management - Photo Gallery - Biological control (photos)
To make it worse, there has usually been one adult policing each of the terminal leaf buds on my seedling apple trees, and I had become pretty adept at search and destroy.
I guess It's a case of correlation not meaning causation.
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