Pepper Weevil Management and Research Priorities
March 3, 2021, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Online Zoom Meeting
Pepper growers/agribusiness professionals/extension personnel are invited to attend a virtual meeting to discuss current pepper weevil management tactics and to set research priorities.
Since 2006, at least one farm each growing season has been infested with pepper weevil. So far, timely spraying after detection has occasionally been successful in eliminating weevils. Otherwise, insecticide applications have only suppressed weevil populations. Pheromone traps are useful in detecting weevils, but often fields are infested before the weevils are trapped. What else can be done? What are the priorities in attempting to manage weevils?
Please join the discussion to help develop tactics to reduce the impact of pepper weevil.
To register please go to https://go.rutgers.edu/3bm2r3xl
The registration deadline is March 1, 2021, and you must pre-register to get the zoom link.
