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 …
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Cicada Killer Wasps
Cicada killer wasps are starting to emerge. This picture was taken on Friday in a landscaped area outside the …
Pesticide Credit Courses
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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 …
Mosquito Populations Likely to Increase
Close to a year ago (June 13, 2018), I wrote “Raining in Mosquitoes” after we had torrential rains in …
Millipede Migration
The hot dry weather has caused millipedes to move in search of moister areas which often means they crawl …
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 …
Planning for Thrips Infestations in 2019 Cotton (Huseth, Reisig)
Tobacco thrips surveys across the northern coastal plain found moderate numbers of tobacco thrips in weeds and wheat (Bertie, …
Fusarium Head Blight Risk Update, April 10, 2019
Fusarium Head Blight Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), also known as scab, is caused by several Fusarium spp., particularly F. graminearum in the U.S. The …
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- Extension Entomology - Insect Biology and Management
- Extension Plant Pathology
- NC Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- NC Pesticide Safety Education
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- Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Schools & Child Care Facilities
- NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic
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- APHIS Pest Detection and Management Programs
- NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Pesticide Section
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