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)

  1. Click here for a PDF of June 10, 2025 webinar
  2. Click here for VIDEO of June 10, 2025 webina

Previous webinars:

New –Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program Website

With links to all PDFs and recorded Webinars

Pest and Disease specific information 

…and ever expanding Resources  

Click here for the NEW Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program Website

Fly, Boxwood Leafminers Fly!

If you haven’t noticed, spring has sprung in earnest. Spring flowering trees and shrubs have popped and are already fading. The buds of many other plants are breaking everywhere. Right along with the plants come the critters.

Freshly emerged Boxwood leafminer adult and pupal exuviae

Freshly emerged Boxwood leafminer adult and pupal exuviae. Photo: Sabrina Tirpak, Rutges PDL

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