By: James Shope and Cesar Rodriguez-Saona As of June 23, Sparganothis fruitworm has accumulated 1,225 degree-days (DD) since the April 15 biofix, based on our degree-day model. This suggests that flight activity has surpassed 90%, with peak flight likely occurring around June 19, 2025. The model reflects average conditions across multiple beds, so some variation […]
Continue reading...June 23, 2025 Tim Waller
NEW – Ornamental IPM Website & Upload of 6/10 Webinar – Next Session Tuesday 6/24
Still time to Sign up for the 2025 – Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program (Join us for the next Session Tuesday 6/24/25) UPLOADS 6/10 SESSION: (contains information on oriental beetle, SLF, Two-spotted spider mites, soft scales, box tree moth, bacterial shothole, virus symptoms) Click here for a PDF of June 10, 2025 webinar Click here for […]
Continue reading...June 20, 2025 Maria Cramer
Veg IPM update 6/20/25
Greetings from the Veg IPM team! This week we’re welcoming 3 scouts for southern New Jersey farms: Kris Szymanski, Nick Vergara, and Renee Carter. Sweet Corn Early plantings of sweet corn are silking throughout New Jersey. Moth captures in much of the state (see map) are indicating that 3 or 4 day spray intervals are […]
Continue reading...June 18, 2025 Michelle Infante-Casella
Thrips Active in Vegetable Crops
With higher temperatures increasing hatch times and spring grains like wheat and rye have drying down, thrips may be more prevalent in vegetable crops, especially when small grains are adjacent to vegetable fields. Thrips are very small and often missed if casually looking at a plant since they hide in blossoms, under sepals, on under […]
Continue reading...June 17, 2025 Janine Spies and Kaitlin Quinn
Fruit IPM Report June 17, 2025
Peach: Bacterial Spot: Fruit symptoms from this set of infections have begun to appear in southern counties. So far fruit symptoms are very low and only in highly susceptible varieties. Peaches are at or past pit hardening and fruit now has some resistance to bacterial spot. Infections can still occur but will be less unsightly […]
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