Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu I visited some strawberry fields over the last few days in Maryland and while most of the fields were on plastic, some were matted row production. Overall, I found low levels… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Originally, commercially available blackberries were floricane types, that is, they fruit on last year’s canes. Over the last decade, the University of Arkansas has released a number of primocane blackberries that are… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Extension entomologists working with spotted wing drosophila, and specifically a group spearheaded by Ash Sial at the University of Georgia, have made updates to insecticide efficacy rankings against SWD. You can find the rankings here:… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu The week of April 21-28 saw our first captures of male San Jose scale in pheromone traps in all three orchards in which we have traps. Trap captures are used to set a ‘biofix’ to… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Spinach and beet leafminers have been around in low numbers for the past few weeks but have increased rapidly in the last 5-6 days. These leaf miners are found in beets,… Continue Reading
