Adults feeding on buds cause the major damage.
Applications of non-selective insecticides and burning of dead trees and pruning slash are environmentally unsafe and often ineffective for ABB control. Preliminary experiments with ABB colonizing branches indicated the existence of an aggregation pheromone. Volatiles emitted by female ABB boring into plum branches were collected on Porapak Q and eluted with hexane. More female than male beetles were captured. However, methanol did not reduce damage to buds caused by ABB maturation feeding.