Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) adults are being captured with increasing frequency now. At the present, areas of highest activity include Burlington and Warren counties (see ECB map). Cooler nights for later this week may suppress catches for the next several days. Most early sweet corn plantings are too young to support ECB larval […]
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[Download PDF version] Peach Green Peach Aphid: Do Not use Actara, Assail, Belay or Admire, any generics or any combination containing them, if you have flowering weeds in your orchard. The presence of flowering weeds means that you will also have foraging bees present, and applying neonicotinoids when foraging bees are present is against the […]
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In this article: Impact & Biology Symptoms & Case Example: White pine blister rust Management Where would we be without rusts? Rust diseases, to a plant pathologist, are anything but boring. In fact, this group of plant diseases contains some of the most destructive pathogens of vascular plants. Throughout history, rust epidemics have caused famine […]
Continue reading...This week: Bacterial leaf spot of bell pepper; Leather rot of strawberry; and Phytophthora crown rot of eggplant.
Continue reading...There have been no new reports of basil downy mildew in New Jersey this past week. Late blight has been reported as far north as Northern Florida this spring. Cucurbit downy mildew has been reported as far north as Southern Georgia this spring.
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