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About a year ago I asked about Worms in my pears in:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.re...a59d3da0b8de42

The diagnose was Pear midge.
I tried to catch the falling pears in a net. But it was of no use
since most of the maggots had already left the pears.
I also covered up the ground and found a significant number of maggots
dead on the cover.
Unfortunately I got some heavy rain so some of the maggots was flushed
of the cover.
In addition to this I covered the ground in the spring, if it made any
difference I don't know.
All this seemed to make a difference, the ratio affected to unaffected
pears was significantly lower this year.

But unfortunately, we had bad pollination this spring so the number of
unaffected pears are low too.
I did no see a single bee in the tree this spring, just some
bumblebees, I think I have to find a
beekeeper and ask him to move some hives to our neighbourhood.

John Rehn

Thanks for the update, we have suffered for years on one pear tree but
not the other, timing it seems is all.
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea