In this Issue:

VEGETABLE NEWS

Striped Cucumber Beetle

Vegetable Insect Update

STRAWBERRY NEWS

Strawberry Sampling Data from MDA and Grower Cooperators

A Note on Pesticide Registration in MN

APPLE NEWS

Apple Scab Infections

Weekly Trap Counts

Codling Moth Management

Apple Pest Activity


Insect, Pest Fact Sheets

Vol 2 No.5   June 6 , 2005

Apple 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

Oriental fruit moth 1 st generation larvae

600 DD

Spotted tentiform leafminer 2 nd flight

600 DD

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

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, 651-297-3217, jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us , MDA, 90 W. Plato Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55107-2094. 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/biocon/fruitreports/

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