In this Issue:
VEGETABLE NEWS
Summary of Corn Earworm and European Corn Borer Dynamics in 2007
Insecticide Efficacy for Corn Earworm: Small-Plot Trial 2007
BERRY NEWS
APPLE NEWS
2007 Trap Catches for Codling Moth and Dogwood Borer at 5 Apple Orchards Monitored by the MDA
Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s 2007 Exotic Apple Insect Pest Survey
| Vol 4 No. 12 | September 28, 2007 |
To Our Readers,
This will be the last edition of the MN Fruit & Vegetable IPM News until next spring. Thanks go out to all our apple cooperators and ECB/CEW trap cooperators who provide us with weekly monitoring information. It has been a great pleasure to write the newsletter this year. We would like to thank our sponsors – the Minnesota Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association and the USDA Risk Management Agency. We hope to bring you the Newsletter again next year.
Please feel free to drop us a line and tell us what you liked, what you didn’t like, and what you would like to see more of in this publication.
Have an abundant harvest!
Jean Ciborowski, MDA
Bill Hutchison, U of MN
Suzanne Wold-Burkness, U of MN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison (hutch002@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Jeanne Ciborowski, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Ag. Resources Management and Development Division, and Suzanne Wold-Burkness (woldx018@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
The Newsletter is published weekly from May through August, cooperatively, by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the University of Minnesota (U of MN). Reports are posted on the U of MN and MDA web sites on Fridays. If you have suggestions and/or comments, please send your contributions by 4 p.m., Wednesday to Jeanne Ciborowski, 651-201-6217, jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us , MDA, 625 Robert St. North, St. Paul, MN 55155. You can access the Newsletter at the U of MN web site in htm format at: www.vegedge.umn.edu/MNFruit&VegNews/mnindex.htm and at the MDA web site in pdf format at: www.mda.state.mn.us/plants/pestmanagement/ipm/ipmnews.htm
Partial funding for this publication is provided through partnership agreements with the Minnesota Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (MFVGA) and the United States Department of Agriculture – Risk Management Agency (RMA). These institutions are equal opportunity providers.
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