In this Issue:

VEGETABLE NEWS

Time to Watch for European Corn Borer Flights

Vegetable Insect Update

STRAWBERRY NEWS

The 2004 Strawberry Integrated Pest Management Project Part 2: Disease Management

Weekly Pest Sampling

APPLE NEWS

Apple Pest Focus: Plum Curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar)

Apple Scab Infections

Degree Day Accumulations

Weekly Trap Counts

Pest Activity

 

WEB SITES

 


Insect, Pest Fact Sheets

 

Vol 1 No.5   June 7, 2004

Pest Activities - Coming/Current Events

Event

Starting Around:

Codling moth egg hatch

375 DD

Codling moth first generation larvae

425 DD

Obliquebanded leafroller 1 st flight

490 DD

Plum curculio injury

Petal fall / Fruit set

Tarnished plant bug injury in berry

Bloom - Harvest

DD base 50°F: Some of these events may have already started at some sites.

 

 

 

 

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, hutch002@umn.edu
Jeanne Ciborowski, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Ag. Resources Division,jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us
Suzanne Wold-Burkness, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, woldx018@umn.edu

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Last Revised June 4, 2004.
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