Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu Our Section 18 request for the use of 2 dinotefuran products (Trade Names: Venom from Valent U.S.A. Corporation; Scorpion from Gowan Company, LLC) to control brown marmorated stink bug on stone and pome fruits… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu This is the time of spring when we see the results from fire blight infections in pome fruits. In addition, warm weather with higher humidity and more frequent showers creates conditions that… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu March is the major month for pruning tree fruits, grapes, and cane fruits. Pruning earlier than March often stimulates plants too early and can result in later cold damage; pruning after plants… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Over the last few weeks growers have given me damaged pears that at the time I said looked like brown marmorated stink bug damage. Pears on the outside had pits in… Continue Reading
Bob Mulrooney, Extension Plant Pathologist; bobmul@udel.edu Adapted from an article in Ky Pest News April 6, 2010 #1224 by John Hartman, Extension Plant Pathologist, University of Kentucky. Flowering pears (Pyrus calleryana), grown in many landscapes, are in full bloom in… Continue Reading
