Click to View | Download Report 7-21-15 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 20, 2015 Andy Wyenandt
Vegetable Disease Briefs – 7/20/15
There have been no new reports of late blight in New Jersey since 7/8. To track late blight in the US please visit http://usablight.org/ Cucurbit downy mildew has been reported on cucumber in New Jersey and on cucumber and butternut squash in PA this past week. To track the progress of CDM in the US […]
Continue reading...July 17, 2015 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 7-17-15
Click to View | Download Report 7-17-15 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 16, 2015 Dean Polk
Fruit IPM Report 7-16-2015
Peach Oriental Fruit Moth (OFM): The third brood should be treated based on the timings below. Overall pest pressure is light with some exceptions in northern counties.
Continue reading...July 15, 2015 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 7/15/15
Sweet Corn There is still very little European corn borer (ECB) adult activity at this time. Few individuals have been captured throughout NJ this past week (see ECB map). ECB infestations are absent from sweet corn plantings. We would expect to see signs of the second flight within the next week or so. As always, […]
Continue reading...July 15, 2015 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Cranberry Toad Bug: Life Cycle & Management
Recently the cranberry toad bug, Phylloscelis atra (Figure 1), has become a problematic pest of cranberries in New Jersey. Toad bugs are hemipteran insects, similar to blunt-nosed leafhoppers, but belong to the Family Dictyopharidae (planthoppers) as opposed to leafhoppers, which belong to the family Cicadellidae.
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