In this Issue:

GUEST ARTICLE

Managing Risks with Food Alliance Certification


VEGETABLE NEWS

Vegetable Insect Update

Callisto Herbicide Now Registered for Sweet Corn

GRAPE NEWS

Grape Flea Beetle

STRAWBERRY NEWS

Strawberry Sampling Data from MDA and Grower Cooperators

APPLE NEWS

Pest Focus: Codling Moth (Cydia pomonella) and Its Look-Alikes

Apple Scab Infections

Weekly Trap Counts

Pest and Disease Events in Apple and Strawberry


Insect, Pest Fact Sheets

Vol 2 No.3   May 23, 2005

Pest and Disease Events in Apple and Strawberry  

Event

Starting At:

Codling moth first flight

185 DD

Codling moth egg-laying

250 DD

Plum curculio adult emergence

250 DD

Plum curculio injury

Petal Fall / Fruit Set

European red mite hatch

160 DD

Strawberry bud weevil (clipper)

65 oF

Tarnished plant bug adult in berry

Prebloom

Twospotted spider mite in berry

Bud/Prebloom

Gray mold (Botrytis) in berry

10% bloom

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

 

 

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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

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