The Short: San Jose Scale (SJS) is in nearly every Hudson Valley orchard. Management of this insect will require season long scheduling of directed applications to gain acceptable levels of control. An application of 3-1% oil targeting overwintering adults at … Continue reading
Order Denying Petition to Revoke All Tolerances for the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos In this Order, EPA denies a petition from the 9th Circuit Court requesting that EPA revoke all tolerances for the pesticide chlorpyrifos under section 408(d) of the Federal Food, … Continue reading
This morning, covered in 2″ of snow, we found our first psylla eggs of the season on Bartlett pear at the Hudson Valley Research Laboratory in Highland, NY. The cold snap will reduce egg laying for the next week, likely … Continue reading
Poughkeepsie Journal Article HIGHLAND – Scientists are getting ready to escalate an unseen war. The life-and-death battle is to rage between two invasive insects, one a residential nuisance and agricultural nightmare, the other a tiny squatter smaller than a pinhead. … Continue reading
Here is an excellent synoptic piece on the environmental constraints on stink bug populations written by Richard Levine, featured in Entomology Today and available at PLOS one in the research article titled “Contrasting Role of Temperature in Structuring Regional Patterns … Continue reading
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