Ornamental IPM 4/22 Recording Upload – Next session Tuesday 5/13

Sign up here for the NEW 2025 – Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program

Ornamental IPM – next session is Tuesday 5/13/25 

 

Click here for a PDF of April 22, 2025 webinar that can be printed and used as a field guide or similar

Click here for a VIDEO recording of April 22, 2025 webinar

 

5/13/25 sessions topics: 

Conifer Issues:

  • Pine needle scale
  • Cryptomeria scale
  • Elongate hemlock scale
  • Oystershell scale
  • Needle cast diseases
  • Red headed pine sawfly
  • Hemlock woolly adelgid
  • Phytophthora in conifers

Ornamental nursery:

  • Boxwood mites
  • Boxwood psyllid
  • Horned and gouty oak galls
  • Hawthorn lace bug
  • Pythium in nurseries

IPM monitoring:

  • Scale monitoring with double sided tape

2025 Registration includes:

The focus of this program is to provide timely updates on pest, disease, and weeds impacting commercial ornamental producers. The webinars will focus on the most important pests for a 2 week interval, will be recorded, and will be shared shortly thereafter with Spanish overdub (spoken word). The trap packages are in an effort to find grower led solutions for monitoring economically important pests throughout the multiple regions of New Jersey. Please consider joining this program for its inaugural year.

  • Site visit to your ornamental nursery/farm from Rutgers agents
  • Delivered printed IPM resources (Guides, factsheets, bulletins)
  • Free pheromone & sticky trap kit + guidance on setup/monitoring
  • Access to live bi-weekly webinars (Zoom)
  • Every Second and Fourth, Tuesday, April through September
  • Webinars will be recorded – posted later with Spanish overdub

This program is free, however registration is required.

click here to Register

(Next webinar Tu 4/22 at 12PM)

Conifer Pest and Disease Update 5/15/2023

In this edition:

  • Insects – Pest Scouting with growing degree-days (250-600 GDD50)
    • Scales
    • Mites
  • Diseases
    • Needle casts (Rhabdocline and Swiss needlecasts – Douglas fir, & Rhizosphaera – spruces)
    • Phytophthora
  • Soil fertility – resources

Please click “read more” below to get updates on pests, diseases, and other important resources for the week of 5/15/2023.

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Hold on to Your Needles!

As the weather warms, Christmas tree growers and nursery folks are beginning to get back into their fields to select trees for digging or to assess field conditions. Recent samples in the Plant Diagnostic Laboratory suggest it would be prudent to keep an eye out for disease symptoms and signs that would have appeared or intensified over the winter. [Read more…]