Disease Hotline Issue 18


Day lily leaf streak. Photo from a pdf found at: http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp/pathology/pathcirc/pp376.pdf by R.M. Leahy & T.S. Schubert

Sclerotinia root rot on sunflower. Photo provided by: Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org

“Sclerotia” of Sclerotina stem rot inside infected stem. Photo provided by: Paul Bachi, University of Kentucky Research & Education Center, Bugwood.org

Powdery mildew on crape myrtle. Photo provided by: Robert Lambe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bugwood.org

What’s Hot HL Issue 17


Fall webworms and webbing on terminal branches. Photo by: Brian Kunkel, Ornamentals IPM Specialist, University of Delaware.

Cicada killer adult. Photo provided by: Jessica Lawrence, NC State Entomology Department, Bugwood.org.

Cicadas captured and paralyzed by female cicada killer to provision her chambers. Photo by: Kenneth R. Law, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org.

Clavate tortoise beetle. Photo by: David Cappaert, Michigan State University, Bugwood.org.

Thistle tortoise beetle. Photo by: David Cappaert, Michigan State University, Bugwood.org.

Thistle tortoise beetle larva. Photo by: David Cappaert, Michigan State University, Bugwood.org.

Rose midge larvae (white spots) on rose. Photo provided by: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/rose_midge.htm.

Powdery mildew on flowering dogwood. Photo by: Mary Ann Hansen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bugwood.org.

Disease Hotline Issue 16


Powdery mildew on Norway Maple. Photo by: Andrej Kunca, National Forest Centre – Slovakia, Bugwood.org.

Powdery Mildew on Norway maple. Photo by: Petr Kapitola, State Phytosanitary Administration, Bugwood.org.

Phyllosticta leaf spot on Leucothoe. Photo by: Paul Bachi, University of Kentucky Research & Education Center, Bugwood.org.

Phyllosticta leaf spot on Leucothoe. Image shown is a A single leaf spot with small, black spore-producing bodies (“pycnidia”) with white ooze containing spores. Photo provided by: Paul Bachi, University of Kentucky Research & Education Center, Bugwood.org.


Asexual spores of Phyllosticta fungus. Photo by: Paul Bachi, University of Kentucky Research & Education Center, Bugwood.org.

Phyllosticta leaf spot on crape myrtle. Photo by: Division of Plant Industry Archive, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Bugwood.org.

Phyllosticta leaf spot on highbush blueberry. Photo by: Division of Plant Industry Archive, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Bugwood.org.