Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Location: Pine Island Cranberry
Meeting Agenda
5:30: Dinner
6:30-7:00: Peter Oudemans,
Troubleshooting Cranberry Disease Problems
7:00-7:30: Cesar Rodrigues-Saona,
Identifying and Controlling Cranberry Insects
7:30-8:00: Pat Hastings,
Safety Precautions in Cranberry Pest Control
8:30-9:00: Dave Frank,
Current Status of Local Bee Populations & Controlling Bee Diseases
9:00-9:30: Ray Samulis,
Farm Safety and the AgrAbility Program
From the Blueberry Bulletin
Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Extension Specialist in Blueberry Entomology
Dean Polk, IPM Agent – Fruit
Gene Rizio, IPM Program Associate – Fruit
Aphids
Aphids: About 32% of shoot samples are positive for aphid infestation. As was the case last week, these are single aphids. They have not started to multiply into colonies. At this early stage searches should be done on the lowest shoot terminals. This is also where worm larvae are more likely to show up. [Read more…]
by Kathryn Homa1,2, Robert Pyne1, Bill Barney2, Andy Wyenandt1, and Jim Simon1
Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, 1Rutgers University; 2IR-4 Program
Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) is an economically important fresh culinary herb grown in the United States. In fall of October 2007, a new disease of basil, downy mildew (Peronospora belbahrii) was first reported in FL. [Read more…]
Just like clockwork and in time to thrill your mother for Mothers Day, the telia of the fungus Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae appeared on area junipers.
Telia of Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae on Eastern red cedar. Photo: Richard Buckley, Rutgers PDL
