In this Issue:

VEGETABLE NEWS

Vegetable Insect Pest Update

Honey Bees: Bt corn Not Likely the Causal Agent for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)

STRAWBERRY NEWS

MDA's Pest Sampling Data

IPM Berry Update

APPLE NEWS

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

Weekly Trap Counts

Apple Scab Infections

USEFUL WEBSITES

A QUICK WAY TO FIND PESTICIDES REGISTERED IN MINNESOTA

Order: 2007 Minnesota Vegetable Guide

Insect, Pest Fact Sheets

MDA’s Weekly Pest Sampling* Data for Strawberry

* Sampling is done using standard sampling techniques for each pest.  
Data collected at a given cooperator site is a “snap-shot” of that particular field and does not represent other fields in that area. 

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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

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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