Click to View | Download Report 7-14-17 Potato Disease Forecasting Report We will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. The first late blight fungicide application is recommended once 18 DSVs accumulate from green row. Green row typically occurs around the first week in May […]
Continue reading...July 13, 2017 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for 7/13/17
Peach: Oriental Fruit Moth (OFM): The 3rd OFM flight is well underway in all counties. These adults produce 3rd brood of larvae, which primarily infest the fruit.
Continue reading...July 12, 2017 Anne Nielsen
BMSB is Under Attack!
Many of our fruit and vegetable growers throughout the state have been battling with populations of brown marmorated stink bug. This invasive pest feeds on most fruiting vegetables, small fruits, and tree fruits and can cause significant economic losses. One of the reasons that BMSB is such a bad pest is that when it arrived […]
Continue reading...July 12, 2017 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 7/12/17
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) catches remain very low, and no map will appear in this edition. Feeding in NJ sweet corn plantings is also low, with remaining larval infestations only on pre-tassel stage corn in the northern counties. Check 5 plants each in 10 random locations for a 50 plant sample. Look for “shot-hole” […]
Continue reading...July 10, 2017 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 7-11-17
Click to View | Download Report 7-11-17 Potato Disease Forecasting Report We will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. The first late blight fungicide application is recommended once 18 DSVs accumulate from green row. Green row typically occurs around the first week in May […]
Continue reading...July 10, 2017 Anne Nielsen
Spotted Lanterfly
Have you seen this Insect? Some people may think it is a moth but it’s really a plant hopper known as the spotted lanternfly, Lycorma deliculata (White) and is a member of the order Hemiptera, family Fulgoridae. Its normal distribution is in eastern Asia, China, India, and Vietnam and has been found in Japan and […]
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