Common Name:           Black stem borer aka Asian ambrosia beetle Order:                              Coleoptera Family:                            Curculionidae Scientific Name:          Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford) The black stem borer […]

The caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has been high over the last two weeks.  Reports of fruit crop insect activity submitted to […]

After a sluggish start, it feels like summer might be here! For apple growers, hot weather means the threat of scab is lessening, but the […]

By: Amaya Atucha, UW-Madison Department Horticulture The formation of flower buds for next year’s crop is starting now and the use of plant growth regulators […]

This model is a new tool, available through NEWA, that provides more precision during bloom thinning. This has generally been a time in which many […]

Spring is in the air and if you have not already done so, this is the time of year when you should be ordering traps […]

Thank you all for attending the WAGA field day, it was a great turn out and I appreciated all the questions, comments, and discussions over […]

Wooly apple aphids have begun to appear in Wisconsin’s orchards, and now is a good time to remind yourself of the different species of aphid […]

Apple growers in Wisconsin have begun finding codling moth (CM) in pheromone-baited traps over the past two weeks. Life Cycle and Identification The codling moth […]

Brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) adults were found in our monitoring traps in apple orchards and in a pumpkin patch in Dane county, making this […]