Ornamental IPM 5/13 Recording Upload – NUMEROUS PEST ALERTS

Still time to Sign up for the 2025 – Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program

(Join us for the next Session Tuesday 5/27/25)

PREVIOUS SESSION: (contains information on boxwood pests, armored scales, needlecast diseases, oomycetes )

  1. Click here for a PDF of May 13, 2025 webinar
  2. Click here for VIDEO of May 13, 2025 webinar

Note we have clearwing borer lures and wing or delta traps, scale crawler tape, and yellow sticky cards available to commercial grower program members at our Cumberland (twaller@njaes.rutgers.edu) and Monmouth (william.errickson@njaes.rutgers.edu) RCE offices.

ALERTS:

  1. Scale crawler emergence throughout the state
  2. Spruce spider mite activity and damage
  3. Boxwood Blight Risk Model for next 7days
  4. Bronze Birch Borer (BBB) approaching adult emergence
  5. Clearwing Borer adult flight – time to monitor / treat
  6. Red-headed flea beetle (RHFB) egg hatch – adult emergence
  7. Oomycete material considerations

Previous webinars:

 

(click the ‘Read More’ below for complete dates in S-C-Northern NJ per pest)

 

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Ornamental IPM – Blight and pest alerts – next IPM Session 5/13/25

  1. Serious potential for Boxwood Blight
  2. Bronze Birch Borer (BBB) approaching adult emergence
  3. Clearwing Borer adult flight – time to monitor
  4. Red-headed flea beetle (RHFB) egg hatch – adult emergence soon
  5. Oomycete material considerations
  6. (click the ‘Read More’ below for complete dates in S-C-Northern NJ per pest)

Still time to Sign up for the 2025 – Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program

(Join us for the next Session Tuesday 5/13/25)

Note we have Clearwing borer lures and wing or delta traps, scale crawler tape, and yellow sticky cards available to commercial grower program members at our Cumberland (twaller@njaes.rutgers.edu) and Monmouth (william.errickson@njaes.rutgers.edu) RCE offices.

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Registration Open for 2 Agricultural Supervisor Training Courses: In English and Spanish

Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development will be offering two Ag Supervisory Leadership courses for all agricultural operations starting in June for farms in the Northeastern Region including: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Registration is currently open and closes on June 25. There are separate registration fees for New York residents and out of state residents. See below. 

The courses available are:
ASL101-SP: Transición a Supervisor (in Spanish)

Transition to Supervisor helps to develop leaders and focuses on skills to improve communication and manage conflict. Learn how to recognize our inherent biases and how to build better working relationships. Gain insight into your leadership style and learn how to effectively lead diverse and multicultural teams.

Course topics include:
How to make the mental transition to supervisor
How to develop effective working relationships
Essential communication skills
How to be the leader of a multicultural group
How to build better working relationships
Course begins: Friday, June 20, 2025
Live Zoom discussions: Thursdays, June 26 – July 31, 4:00–5:00 PM ET

Register for ASL101-SP Transición a Supervisor

ASL106: Ethics and Employment Regulations (in English)

In ASL106: Ethics and Employment Regulations, you’ll explore how to implement fair and ethical labor practices in agriculture and why they matter. You’ll learn to recognize and prevent sexual harassment, understand wage and hour laws, and apply Equal Employment Opportunity regulations to foster a respectful, inclusive workplace. The course also covers best practices for handling employee discipline and termination.

Course topics include:
Ethics and sustainability
Equal Employment Opportunity, laws and implications
Hiring regulations and practices
Safety issues in agriculture
Farm employee housing
Compensation regulations
Being an ethical supervisor
Course begins: Friday, June 20, 2025
Live Zoom discussions: Thursdays, June 26 – July 31, 3:00–4:00 PM ET

Register for ASL106: Ethics and Employment Regulations

Course costs:
$275 for NYS residents/$325 for out-of-state residents

Scholarship Opportunity for Dairy Producers:
Thanks to the Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center (NEDBIC), eligible dairy producers can apply for a $100 scholarship to help cover registration fees. Scholarships are available to participants from qualifying states in the Northeast, including Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Questions? Email cu-agworkforce@cornell.edu

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Ornamental, including Christmas Tree – IPM Updates (Week of 5/1)

Some important actual and anticipated pest emergences as of 5/1/25

  1. Boxwood leaf miner emergence in southern NJ – monitor locations now.
  2. Crapemyrtle aphid appearance in southern NJ
  3. Bronze Birch Borer (BBB) approaching adult emergence
  4. Red-headed flea beetle (RHFB) egg hatch – adult treatment with systemic applications
  5. Clearwing Borer adult flight – time to monitor
  6. Conifer scale crawler emergence anticipated
  7. (click the ‘Read More’ below for complete dates in S-C-Northern NJ per pest)

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Ornamental IPM 4/22 Recording Upload – Next session Tuesday 5/13

Sign up here for the NEW 2025 – Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program

Ornamental IPM – next session is Tuesday 5/13/25 

 

Click here for a PDF of April 22, 2025 webinar that can be printed and used as a field guide or similar

Click here for a VIDEO recording of April 22, 2025 webinar

 

5/13/25 sessions topics: 

Conifer Issues:

  • Pine needle scale
  • Cryptomeria scale
  • Elongate hemlock scale
  • Oystershell scale
  • Needle cast diseases
  • Red headed pine sawfly
  • Hemlock woolly adelgid
  • Phytophthora in conifers

Ornamental nursery:

  • Boxwood mites
  • Boxwood psyllid
  • Horned and gouty oak galls
  • Hawthorn lace bug
  • Pythium in nurseries

IPM monitoring:

  • Scale monitoring with double sided tape

2025 Registration includes:

The focus of this program is to provide timely updates on pest, disease, and weeds impacting commercial ornamental producers. The webinars will focus on the most important pests for a 2 week interval, will be recorded, and will be shared shortly thereafter with Spanish overdub (spoken word). The trap packages are in an effort to find grower led solutions for monitoring economically important pests throughout the multiple regions of New Jersey. Please consider joining this program for its inaugural year.

  • Site visit to your ornamental nursery/farm from Rutgers agents
  • Delivered printed IPM resources (Guides, factsheets, bulletins)
  • Free pheromone & sticky trap kit + guidance on setup/monitoring
  • Access to live bi-weekly webinars (Zoom)
  • Every Second and Fourth, Tuesday, April through September
  • Webinars will be recorded – posted later with Spanish overdub

This program is free, however registration is required.

click here to Register

(Next webinar Tu 4/22 at 12PM)

Ornamental IPM 4/8 Recording Upload – Next session Tuesday 4/22

Ornamental IPM – next session is Tuesday 4/22/25 

Sign up here for the NEW 2025 – Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program.

 

Click here for a PDF of April 08, 2025 webinar that can be printed and used as a field guide or similar

Click here for a VIDEO recording of April 08, 2025 webinar

Next sessions topic: 

  • Updates (GDD, Miticides, Ambrosia Beetle, Boxwood blight alerts) 
  • Boxwood leafminer
  • Holly leaf miner
  • Eastern tent caterpillars
  • Spongy moth
  • Evergreen lacebugs
  • Clearwing Borers (and trapping)
  • Red-headed flea beetle (adult pre-treatment)
  • Diseases: Fire Blight and Rusts

2025 Registration includes:

The focus of this program is to provide timely updates on pest, disease, and weeds impacting commercial ornamental producers. The webinars will focus on the most important pests for a 2 week interval, will be recorded, and will be shared shortly thereafter with Spanish overdub (spoken word). The trap packages are in an effort to find grower led solutions for monitoring economically important pests throughout the multiple regions of New Jersey. Please consider joining this program for its inaugural year.

  • Site visit to your ornamental nursery/farm from Rutgers agents
  • Delivered printed IPM resources (Guides, factsheets, bulletins)
  • Free pheromone & sticky trap kit + guidance on setup/monitoring
  • Access to live bi-weekly webinars (Zoom)
  • Every Second and Fourth, Tuesday, April through September
  • Webinars will be recorded – posted later with Spanish overdub

This program is free, however registration is required.

click here to Register

(Next webinar Tu 4/22 at 12PM)