Bees on peaches

[coolbrze0]

I've got what look like small Bumble bees boring into & eating some of my peaches. Anything I can spray on the trees/peaches to deter w/o hurting the bees & making the peaches inedible?

 

[Native Hunter]

Look up "Sevin." Read the label and see what you think. People use this on fruits and vegetables.

 

[coolbrze0]

I spray most of my orchard trees with Sevin in early summer for Japanese Beetles but it has a 14 day pre-harvest warning so that won't work since we've been harvesting peaches for almost a week now & have roughly 3 weeks left in the season.

 

[Mennoniteman]

I spray most of my orchard trees with Sevin in early summer for Japanese Beetles but it has a 14 day pre-harvest warning so that won't work since we've been harvesting peaches for almost a week now & have roughly 3 weeks left in the season.

Malathion has a 7 day pre-harvest interval, if that would help you any.

 

[swat1018]

I've got peaches for only the 2nd time since I planted them in 2009. I've got the limbs propped up, it's a good crop. Been picking for a week. 4 batches of peach preserves and more in the freezer.

 

[Mennoniteman]

I've got peaches for only the 2nd time since I planted them in 2009. I've got the limbs propped up, it's a good crop. Been picking for a week. 4 batches of peach preserves and more in the freezer.

That's amazing. Peaches are about the best dessert fruit there is. Most of the peaches in Pennsylvania froze last spring.

 

[RGrizzzz]

That's amazing. Peaches are about the best dessert fruit there is. Most of the peaches in Pennsylvania froze last spring.

Banner crop last year, nothing this year.

My favorite way to eat them.
Brown Sugar Peaches with Ice Cream | Williams Sonoma (williams-sonoma.com)

 

[SwampCat]

Peach crop was fair on my trees this year - at least it looked like the coons enjoyed them all as they broke the branches - after they cleaned out the nectarine tree. At least they have moved on - to the apple trees and are now eating all the green apples and breaking those branches.

 

[coolbrze0]

Couldn't find anything that wasn't harmful but the bee #s died down over the last week & a half. Started picking a day or two early & that seems to have really helped. Been dehydrating, canning, & making preserves plus a lot of fresh eating, think I've put on 5 lbs haha!

 

[Mennoniteman]

Peach crop was fair on my trees this year - at least it looked like the coons enjoyed them all as they broke the branches - after they cleaned out the nectarine tree. At least they have moved on - to the apple trees and are now eating all the green apples and breaking those branches.

It sounds like you need a

 

[SwampCat]

It sounds like you need a

I have two dozen. My coons have seen so many dog proof traps - they ignore them. I set out 20 traps about every two or three months. I catch maybe three the first night, two the second night - and none after that.

 

[catscratch]

Have you tried burying the traps so they look like a hole in the ground instead of a trap? Change baits? Wire them 3 ft up onto the side of a tree? Anything to change presentation and spark curiosity.