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.

• Click here for a PDF of April 22, 2025 webinar (contains information on RHFB and early Clearwing borer treatments)   Click here for VIDEO of April 22, 2025 webinar
• Click here for a PDF of April 08, 2025 webinar (Contains information on aphids and boxwood leafminer) Click here for VIDEO of April 08, 2025 webinar

all data shown is from uspest.org as of 5/12/2025

Click here for additional boxwood resources

Click here for additional Bronze Birch Borer (BBB) resources

Click here for additional clearwing borer resources

Oomycete Material Options in Ornamentals – (Updated 2025)

Click here Oomycides 2025 updated – printable