Tag: insect control
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Posted on March 1, 2024
Dormant Season Sprays for Early Season Insect/Mite Control
With the warm weather comes the time to think about dormant season sprays earlier than usual. It is important to plan to monitor for mites, […]
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Posted on August 1, 2023
Diazinon Shortage and Future Production: Final Update?
Following my previous articles on the shortage of Diazinon, I wanted to provide a little bit more background to the situation. The Environmental Protection Agency […]
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Posted on July 19, 2023
Update on Diazinon
Correction: While there is a supply issue with Diazinon at this time, there should be an official statement from Adama soon, hopefully, about their plans […]
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Posted on April 18, 2023
Cranberry Biological Insecticide: Spear-Lep
Spear-Lep is a biological insecticide that is part of the first peptide-based insecticides that offer a new mode of action (IRAC 32). Spear-Lep is registered […]
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Biological Insecticide: Spear-Lep
Spear-Lep is a biological insecticide that is part of the first peptide-based insecticides that offer a new mode of action (IRAC 32). Spear-Lep is registered […]
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Posted on July 19, 2021
Red-Headed Flea Beetle Showing Up at Marshes
Red-headed flea beetle (aka cranberry flea beetle; Systena frontalis) adults (Fig 1) started showing up at some marshes in the second week of July. It […]
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Posted on September 29, 2020
Novel Bio-Insecticide Demonstrations and Advances in Spray Timing
Flea beetles remain a major problem for Wisconsin cranberries, and 2020 brought together a team of cranberry growers and researchers who were working on ways […]
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Posted on August 17, 2020
Let’s Talk About Picnic/Sap Beetles
Picnic beetles, also called sap beetles, are a complex of over 160 species of beetles that feed on damaged, overripe, or decomposing fruits and vegetables. […]
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Posted on August 6, 2020
A Fun Way to Help Manage Spotted-Wing Drosophila: Hummingbirds!
A recent study conducted by J. Carroll, C. Weber, and G. Loeb at Cornell University assessed the impact of hummingbirds on managing spotted-wing drosophila (SWD, […]
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Posted on May 11, 2020
Spring Insects: Leafrollers and Leafminers
Spring is here and so are leafrollers and leafminers. DATCP reported for the first week of May average counts of redbanded leafroller (RBLR; Figure 1) […]