WCU Volume 33, Issue 10 – May 16, 2025 PDF of WCU Volume 33:10 – May 16, 2025 WCU Subscription Options for 2025: Mail, Email, or Text Vegetable Crops Vegetable Insect Scouting Warm Temperatures Are Moving Crops Along Fruit Crops… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Early Season Moth Activity Early season moth activity continues to be low. I do not anticipate any issues with armyworm. A report of black cutworm activity in soybean came in this week. Next week will… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu San Jose Scale A few weeks ago, I discussed San Jose Scale crawler timing. Although we did not have pheromone traps out this year, we can estimate based on previous years and relative apple phenology… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Cucurbits Striped cucumber beetles continue to roll into fields. We are beginning another pyrethroid resistance monitoring effort this year and need beetles from all over Delmarva. If you have a location in which the entomology… Continue Reading
Veronica Yurchak, Vegetable Specialist, UMD; vjohnso4@umd.edu The goal of this series is to increase awareness and knowledge of beneficial insects in cropping systems to help differentiate them from pests of concern. Over the past week I have noticed an abundance… Continue Reading
