In autumn, find tick eggs on an apple tree and mark the tree

After leaf fall on an apple tree with a magnifying glass, you can see the reddish wintering eggs of a fruit mite. More often they are sought near the buds, fruit spurs, forks and roughness of the bark.

Checking several branches. Single eggs are a reason to mark the tree and return to it in the spring. If there are many clusters on several branches, the risk is higher.

In the spring, young foliage is examined for light speckling and bronzeness - these signs may indicate an increase in the number of ticks. Only after assessing the actual number decide on drugs against ticks.

Just in case treatments are undesirable: they can reduce the number of natural predators. First of all, the trees are controlled, where in the autumn there were many masonry or in the summer the leaves have already bronzed.