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Grape Pest Survey - 3rd Week of July
Grapes are starting to ripen, including those at our location in Currituck Co. This week we continue to catch grape berry …
Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of July
The grapes at our monitoring sites continue to grow and are getting close to full size. This week, we caught …
Save the Date: Strawberry Pre-Plant Meeting in Hendersonville, Aug 27
Western NC Strawberry Pre-Plant Meeting August 27, 2019 Registration: free Sponsored by the USDA and ASAP. 9:30 a.m.–3 p.m. Location: North River Farms 3333 N …
Grape Pest Survey - 1st Week of July
Presence of pests in our scouted vineyards remain very similar than last week. As in the past report, grape berry …
Grape Pest Survey - 4th Week of June
As the grapes grow, we again started to catch grape berry moth in one of our Northwest locations (Wilkes Co.), …
Grape Pest Survey- 3rd Week of June
Glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) detections continue in both of our Northeast sites, in Perquimans and Currituck Co., and we captured our …
Grape Pest Survey- 2nd Week of June
We are starting to catch the glassy winged sharpshooter, a vector of Pierce’s diseases(PD) in one of our northeast …
Grape Pest Survey - 1st Week of June
As the summer approaches, the three-cornered alfalfa hopper, Spissistilus festinus, captures are picking up in both sticky traps and …
Grape Pest Survey 5th Week of May
Our last site in the southwest of the state has been added to the pest survey this week in …
Grape Pest Survey - 4th Week of May
As we move towards the end of May, a few vineyards are still in blossom and others are setting …
Non-Biting Midges Emerging
Chironomid midges (“fuzzy bills”) are emerging in large numbers from ponds, lakes as well as the rivers feeding into …
Grape Pest Survey- 2nd and 3rd Week of May
As we approach the 3rd week of May, the plants continue to fill in, and some fields have started …
Spotted-Wing Drosophila Active in North Carolina Blueberries
The first confirmed adult spotted-wing drosophila (SWD) in commercially grown blueberries for the 2019 growing season was captured early …
Grape Pest Survey - 3rd Week of April Through 1st Week of May
We have establishing grape pest monitoring locations and completed our first weeks of pest counts at three of our …
2019 Grape Insect Pest Survey
This spring, the Specialty Crop IPM Lab is scouting vineyards in throughout North Carolina in order to track the …
Cottony Maple Leaf Scales Producing Eggs
Cottony Maple Leaf Scale is one of several cottony scales in the genus Pulvinaria. Cottony camellia scale and cottony maple scale are …
Southern Red Mites Active on Ornamentals
In North Carolina, the most important cool season mites are the spruce spider mite (Oligonychus ununguis) and southern red …
Watch for Predators That Look Like Pests
Yesterday on campus willow oak trees I found lots of insects that looked like mealybugs. But they were faster …
Glyphosate Safety Update - No Risk to Public Health
On April 30, 2019, the EPA announced the availability of the proposed registration review decision for glyphosate. From the …
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