In this Issue:

Welcome!

MDA Apple and Strawberry Pest and Identification Manuals


VEGETABLE NEWS

Vegetable Insect Update - Seed Corn Maggot

STRAWBERRY NEWS

Strawberry Insect Pests that will be Monitored in 2005

Weekly Pest Sampling Data

APPLE NEWS

Apple Insect Pests that will be Monitored in 2005

Apple Scab Infections

Weekly Trap Counts


Insect, Pest Fact Sheets

Vol 2 No. 1   May 9, 2005

Apple: Weekly Trap Counts April 25 – May 5, 2005

Beginning next week, all locations will be reporting in apple trap catch numbers. Here are the numbers from locations that set traps out last week.

County

Location

Degree Days (Dates)**

CM

RBLR

OBLR

OFM

LAW

Hiawatha Region

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rice

Faribault - Site 1

134.7 (4/06 to 5/03)

0

2

0

0

0

Wabasha

Elgin

127.1 (4/05 to 5/04)

0

0

0

0

0

Wabasha

Lake City

135.5 (4/05 to 5/04)

0

0

0

0

xxx

St. Croix Region

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Washington

Hastings – Site 1

---

0

5

0

0

xxx

Washington

Hastings – Site 2

157.3 (4/01 to 5/05)

0

12

0

xxx

0

Washington

White Bear Lake

82.1 ((4/05 to 4/27)

0

9

0

0

xxx

West Metro Region

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stearns

Fairhaven

130.9 (4/04 to 5/02)

0

2

0

0

0

Other Locations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pine

Kerrick

77.0 (4/01 to 5/01)

0

0

0

0

xxx

* Locations monitored for: CM = codling moth, RBLR = redbanded leafroller, OBLR = obliquebanded leafroller, LAW = lesser appleworm, and /or OFM = oriental fruit moth, XX = no information provided, xxx = not monitored at these locations.

** Degree days using SpecWare 7 Pro = cumulative or integral degree days (uses hourly temperatures), with calculation parameters of Base Temp = 50 oF and Upper Limit = 86 oF.

 

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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

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