While rating our test plots for insect injury this morning, it became apparent that stink bug feeding that had occurred at least 2-weeks earlier, was appearing on the fruit. In many of our border plots along a wooded edge of … Continue reading
As we have seen over the past 3 years, this period of warm weather during the month of August gives rise to multiple overlapping generations of the adult Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii. The increase in numbers has now … Continue reading
With the end of the second generation of codling moth and the decline of the apple maggot flight it’s tempting to consider that the last spray in mid-August would usher in the end of the spray season. The applications of … Continue reading
Workshop Invitation: Establishing A Slender Spindle Organic Orchard Cropping System. Organic European and Asian Pear Production Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015 from 4:00-6:30pm Hudson Valley Research Laboratory, 3357 US Hwy 9W, Highland, NY 12528 Speakers: Dr. David Rosenberger, Emeritus Tree Fruit … Continue reading
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) nymphs were observed on peach last week in Highland, NY and Wading River, Long Island. No feeding injury to fruit has been observed to date on peach. Over the past two weeks we have been … Continue reading
As we moved through the season from June into July we had no shortage of rainfall with over 7.00″ of rain in Highland for the month, providing ample soil moisture for apple maggot adults to emerge from the soil. However, … Continue reading
New York’s Section 18 application for the use of products containing bifenthrin has been approved by the EPA. This is a renewal by the EPA and NYS DEC of a ‘Section 18 Emergency/Crisis Exemption Approval’ use permit for the pyrethroid … Continue reading
The principle pests of pear production in the Northeastern US are pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola (Foerster), and Fabraea leaf spot, Fabraea maculata, and to a lesser extent the obliquebanded leafroller and codling moth. The two primary pests cause premature defoliation, … Continue reading
BIFENTHRIN APPROVED AGAINST BMSB IN THE HUDSON VALLEY FOR 2015 New York’s Section 18 application for the use of products containing bifenthrin has been approved by the EPA. This is a renewal by the EPA and NYS DEC of a … Continue reading
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Recent drought conditions have created conditions conducive to stink bug movement into fields and orchards over the past few weeks. Identifying key stink bug species is critical to making sound judgment for management decisions. There are two brown colored species … Continue reading
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