Plum moth maggots (Grapholita funebrana) in the forming fruit on our fruit trees

The season started of so wonderful with most of the fruit trees blossoming beautifully and after a few weeks we can see lots of fruit starting to form. We always have a lot of the caterpillars of the Apple tree spider moth in our apple trees, so we checked and collected them of our smaller apple trees as much as possible. The bigger apple trees can cope with them and they are too high and there are too many to collect them anyway. In the middle of this job we noticed dried in fruits on our plum trees. Last year the plum moth maggots cost us almost all of our plum fruit and it looks like this year will be no different. We collected all of the dried in fruit and all of the fruit with a hole in it we could find, but will it be enough…

I do hope nature will find a balance soon. I do not mind sharing our produce with nature, but I would like to harvest some of it too.