Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Growers, especially on the Eastern Shore, may already be seeing leaf symptoms on their cantaloupe plants that are often misdiagnosed as a foliar disease. However, these leaf symptoms described below indicate… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu In a sentinel plot of cucurbits (cantaloupe, cucumber, watermelon, pumpkin, etc.) near Cambridge, MD on the Eastern Shore and in a few other cantaloupe and cucumber fields are some of the… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu and Bill Cissel, Extension Agent – Integrated Pest Management; bcissel@udel.edu We found our first two spotted spider mites in watermelon, cantaloupe, and soybean last week. Spider mites move into fields in 3 ways: hitching a… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Several reports lately of very deformed watermelon plants, but also of cucumber and cantaloupe plants. These distortions (Fig. 1) are being caused by melon aphids Aphis gossypii Glover in most cases.… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu Scab of Cucurbits Cool wet weather is associated with several vegetable diseases. One of these is scab on cucurbits, caused by the fungus Cladosporium cucumerinum, which is favored… Continue Reading
