The enemy is a small insect pest, a beetle, which develops one generation per year. It lays its eggs in the buds of the pear tree in the autumn and overwinters there as an egg. The larvae hatched in spring completely damage the fruit buds, as a result of which not a single flower develops from them. The damaged fruit buds during flowering do not develop, dry up, and fall off.
Control is carried out against the adult beetles, before they have laid their eggs – in late September to early October.
