In this Issue:

FEATURE ARTICLE

From the Marketing Department: How to Lose a Customer - For Life!

RESEARCH UPDATE

Use of Green Manure Cover Crops Improves Disease Management

VEGETABLE NEWS

Vegetable Insect Pest Update

Western Bean Cutworm Update

STRAWBERRY NEWS

MDA's Pest Sampling Data

IPM Berry Update

APPLE NEWS

Weekly Trap Counts

Apple Scab Infections

NEW PUBLICATION

Managing Pests in Landscapes & Homes - a Homeowner’s Guide to Integrated Pest Management in Minnesota

Please note: There will be NO IPM Newsletter next week. We will be back on June 22nd!


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Insect, Pest Fact Sheets

Vol 4 No. 5   June 8, 2007

Apple Insect Pests: Weekly Trap Counts

 County

 Location

 Degree Days (Dates)**

Dates Traps in Orchard

 CM

 DWB

LAW

OBLR

RBLR

STLM

La Crescent Region

Fillmore

Preston

543.4
(4/1-6/5)

5/30-6/6

6

1

17

6

0

0

Winona

St. Charles

---

5/30-6/5

5

---

---

6

2

---

Hiawatha Region

Rice

Faribault
(Site 1)

627.1
(4/5-6/5)

5/29-6/5

3
(avg. 2 traps)

0

3

1

0

0

Rice

Faribault
(Site 2)

649.3
(4/1-6/6)

5/31-6/6

2

0

4

9

0

55

Wabasha

Elgin

597.9
(4/4-6/6)

5/30-6/6

55.5
(avg. 2 traps)

1

1

1

0

2

Wabasha

Lake City

594.2
(4/4-6/6)

5/30-6/6

23
(avg. 2 traps)

2

4

0

0

1

St. Croix Region

Chisago

Shafer

597.8
(3/23-6/6)

5/30-6/6

2
(avg. 4 traps)

0

11

8

0

77

Dakota

Lakeville

655.2
(3/30-6/6)

5/31-6/6

2
(avg. 2 traps)

0

8

4

0

8

Dakota

West St. Paul

---

5/30-6/6

5

0

27

2

0

148

Washington

Hastings
(Site 1)

643
(4/1-6/5)

5/30-6/6

5
(avg. 3 traps)

0

22

1

0

0
(avg. 2 traps)

Washington

Hastings
(Site 2)

624.9
(4/1-6/7)

5/31-6/7

3.25
(avg. 4 traps)

2

9

0

0

0

Washington

Hugo

604.1
(4/1-6/6)

5/30-6/6

4

1

3

2

0

1

Washington

White Bear Lake

576.1
(4/1-6/6)

5/3-6/6

14
(avg. 2 traps)

0

9

5

0

19

West Metro Region

Scott

Veseli

630.8
(4/13-6/6)

5/29-6/6

16

0

0

0

0

243

Stearns

Fairhaven
(traps out 2 weeks)

573.5
(4/3-6/4)

5/21-6/4

7.5
(avg. 2 traps)

3

86

3

19

1

Other Location

Pine

Kerrick

369
(4/1-6/5)

5/29-6/5

0

0

36

0

6

16

KEY: CM = codling moth, DWB = dogwood borer, LAW = lesser apple worm, OBLR = obliquebanded leafroller, RBLR = redbanded leafroller, STLM = spotted tentiform leafminer,    --- = no information provided.
** Degree days using Spec 7 Pro = cumulative or integral degree days (uses hourly temperatures), with calculation parameters of Base Temp = 50°F and Upper Limit = 86°F. 

 

 

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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, 651-201-6217, 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

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