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tarnished plant bug

Fruit Crop Insect Scouting

May 1, 2025raharris

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Continue scouting for plum curculio in stone and pome fruits. Look for crescent shaped scars on fruits and shake branches of white drop cloths to assess presence. Late strawberries that are still blooming should be… Continue Reading →

Fruit Crops 33:8, tarnished plant bug

Fruit Insect Scouting

April 11, 2025lyndsie

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu   Plum Curculio is active and moving into smaller, or less intensively managed blocks. Peach shuck split is a good time to control them if you are at risk. We caught 17 codling moths last… Continue Reading →

Fruit Crops 33:5, apples, codling moths, plum curculio, strawberries, tarnished plant bug

Strawberry Insect Scouting

March 20, 2025raharris

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Begin scouting for tarnished plant bug on blossoms and spider mites on leaflets. Threshold for spider mites is 15-20 per leaflet at this stage. For tarnished plant bug, shake or flick flower clusters onto a… Continue Reading →

Fruit Crops 33:3, spider mite, tarnished plant bug

Strawberry Insect Scouting

April 9, 2021kgyoung

– David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Begin scouting strawberry for two spotted spider mite and tarnished plant bug. With the cooler winter we had this year, mite populations may be slower. In 2020, we had strawberry plots in Georgetown with… Continue Reading →

Fruit Crops strawberry, tarnished plant bug, twospotted spider mites

Tarnished Plant Bug in Strawberries

May 22, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu This spring, cold weather has interfered with strawberry pollination resulting in misshapen berries. But there is another cause of deformed fruit: tarnished plant bug. Tarnished plant bugs are a brown to black, mottled, and small… Continue Reading →

Fruit Crops 28:10, strawberry, tarnished plant bug

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