I became a member of HOS becauce I purchased a retirement home in OR where they started, but my original home is in Ala. I have several older peach trees which I have varied crops on year to year. If I do not spray them with a good insect spray shortly after blooming, I have the same problem as AL Gal in Boaz AL. I live less than 60 miles from you. Worms will eat up southern peaches if they are not sprayed. I don't know the type worm.

I forgot to spray this past year and therefore did not get a crop. My house in not colocated with the trees. Because it has been a couple of years, my memory is not that good on the specific spray I used. I have used a Specside (SP) spray in the past, but there are several types of spray in that line. I think that anything that would control Japenese Beetles would work for the peach insects. But look at the instructions to be sure it is OK for peach trees. There is a fly/moth that lays an egg for the worms and you can see them fly away when you spray. The idea is to keep them off/or kill them. Start spraying as soon as the bees stop visiting the flowers and continue at about 2 week intervals until the fruit starts to ripen or other specific instructions on the spray.