WCU Volume 32, Issue 15 – June 21, 2024, PDF of WCU Volume 32:15 – June 21, 2024 WCU Subscription Options for 2024: Mail, Email, or Text Vegetable Crops Vegetable Crop Insect Scouting Transplant Stem Necrosis From Heat Fruit Crops… Continue Reading
Emmalea Ernest, Extension Fruit & Vegetable Specialist; emmalea@udel.edu By this time most warm season vegetables have already been established. However, if you are putting in plantings in late June and July, high temperatures and long, sunny days can make it… Continue Reading
Guess The Pest June 14 Answer David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Congratulations to Bob Leiby and Cory Showard for providing two excellent suggestions: Fusarium Wilt and Bacterial Wilt. Bacterial wilt is on my mind, being an entomologist. It is vectored… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Corn Begin scouting for Japanese beetle defoliation and for brown stink bugs. NCSU thresholds for stink bugs are 10 or more bugs per 100 plants at V14-VT. Please note that stink bug thresholds more than… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Cucurbits Continue scouting for spider mites. Focus on the crown area and especially around non-crop habitat. For other cucurbits, squash bug and squash vine borer are both active. Squash bug control is often a 2-spray… Continue Reading
