Disease Hotline Issue 2


Crabapple scab. Photo found at: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/files/images/Apple%20scab.preview.jpg

Botryosphaeria canker. Photo provided by: University of Georgia Plant Pathology Archive, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org

Black spot on roses. Photo provided by: Yuan-Min Shen, Taichung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, Bugwood.org

Insect Hotline Issue 2


Pine weeping from Sirex noctilio oviposition holes in trunk. Photo provided by: Dennis Haugen, Bugwood.org

Sirex noctilio emergence holes. Photo provided by: Dennis Haugen, Bugwood.org

Sirex noctilio larva. Photo provided by: Dennis Haugen, Bugwood.org

Male Sirex noctilio adult. Photo provided by: David R. Lance, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org

Female Sirex noctilio adult. Photo provided by: Stanislaw Kinelski, Bugwood.org

Sirex noctilio females often die when ovipositing into the tree. Photo provided by: Paula Klasmer, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Bugwood.org

Winter injury on pine (dessication). Photo found at: http://ppp.missouri.edu/newsletters/meg/archives/v7n1/desicpflex.jpg and photo by: Chris Starbuck.

Weed Hotline Issue 5


Poa annua (annual bluegrass) in a lawn. Photo by: Steve Dewey, Utah State University, Bugwood.org.

Poa annua plant. Photo by: Joseph M. DiTomaso, University of California – Davis, Bugwood.org.

Leaf tip of annual bluegrass plant. Note the canoe-shaped tip. Photo by: Joseph M. DiTomaso, University of California – Davis, Bugwood.org.

Annual bluegrass seeds. Photo by: Joseph M. DiTomaso, University of California – Davis, Bugwood.org.

Downy brome in daylily beds.

Downy brome in daylily beds.