Monthly Archives: July 2014

In our observations of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) last week, we see a continuing increase of nymph movement to traps as they become larger, more mobile and attracted to the aggregation pheromone. This is quite apparent in five of … Continue reading →

Full Sweet Corn Report, July 31st, 2014 Hudson Valley: The full complex of sweet corn lepidopteran insects, including European corn borer (ECB), Corn earworm (CEW), Fall armyworm (FAW) and Western Bean Cutworm (WBC) adults were captured in New Paltz traps … Continue reading →

Yesterday we had the first capture of spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) in summer / fall raspberry planting of ‘Prelude’, in which we found ovipositional injury (punctures and eggs) with larva present in fruit. Our damage assessment of a 20 fruit … Continue reading →

The ENY Horticultural Team reported two male spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) captured in an apple cider vinegar trap in a raspberry patch in Dutchess County (Poughkeepsie) on July 28th. Fall raspberry were too few in number and immature for damage … Continue reading →

The ENY Horticultural Team reported a single male spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) captured in an apple cider vinegar trap in a blueberry patch in Ulster County on July 25th, and three SWD males confirmed from traps set in raspberries, checked … Continue reading →

The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) is being trapped in more then 15 sites throughout New York State with six sites in the mid and lower Hudson Valley. We strongly recommend that growers purchase and utilize BMSB Tedders traps this … Continue reading →

On July 18 we reached Apple Maggot threshold of 5 flies per trap, in a block of mixed variety apple in which we were monitoring baited red sticky spheres at the Hudson Valley Lab. Recent rains have provided optimum conditions … Continue reading →

The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) has been building in numbers since 2007. In 2012, economic injury occurred in vegetable and pome fruit, documented in three NY counties. Very little damage occurred in 2013, despite very high trap captures along … Continue reading →

Codling moth (Order Lepidoptera, Family Tortricidae): Our pheromone trap captures show increasing flight of the adult males beginning late last week. As of Monday July 13th, the degree day developmental model for 2nd generation codling moth predicts adult emergence at … Continue reading →

Full Sweet Corn Report, July 15th, 2014 The trap catch data from New Paltz and Warwick this week indicates a continued decline in the number of adult first brood European corn borers (ECB). In New Paltz, Corn Earworm (CEW) and … Continue reading →