Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of September
As harvest continues and we get close to the end of the season, we are finishing the insect scouting …
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Keep the Repellent Handy
Although hurricane Dorian has come and gone for most of us, its rainfall has likely left standing water in …
Grape Pest Survey - 1st Week of September
Harvest keeps going in a full swing, and about half of our locations are completely harvested with the rest …
Grape Pest Survey- 4th Week of August
Two of our locations have completed harvest, and we have concluded our monitoring efforts. We will continue to visit …
How to Protect Your Beehives From Mosquito Spraying Following a Hurricane
How beekeepers can minimize the effects on their hives The devil is in the details, most of which are under …
PDIC Schedule During Hurricane Dorian
Due to possible tropical storm conditions, the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic will close on Thursday, September 5, 2019, …
Grape Pest Survey - 3rd Week of August
As the harvest continue in some of our locations, we caught the highest average number of grape berry moth …
Insect Control on Forage Crops
R. Brandenburg, D.D. Reisig, and T.L. Billeisen, Entomology and Plant Pathology Insects pests of pastures and forage crops are often …
Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of August
Our first vinifera location, in Rowan Co., began harvest this past week, and as the fruit were gone, we …
Grape Pest Survey- 1st Week of August
At our monitoring sites, grapes are ripe, and the first harvest at the Johnston Co. location started this week. …
West Nile Virus Found in NC Mosquito
Many of you may have seen the news about the New Hanover County Public Health office reported that a …
Grape Pest Survey- 5th Week of July
Glassy winged sharpshooter captures are very low or zero in locations with previous captures. This suggests we are between …
Grape Pest Survey- 4th Week of July
As we reach the end of July, more fields started to ripen for both muscadines and vinifera grapes, and …
First Report of Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Back in June, I wrote about how mosquito populations were likely to start increasing and we would likely see …
Grape Pest Survey - 3rd Week of July
Grapes are starting to ripen, including those at our location in Currituck Co. This week we continue to catch grape berry …
Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of July
The grapes at our monitoring sites continue to grow and are getting close to full size. This week, we caught …
Grape Pest Survey - 1st Week of July
Presence of pests in our scouted vineyards remain very similar than last week. As in the past report, grape berry …
Time for Tick Treatments
On Monday, the N.C. Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services posted a press release about the deaths of five …
Grape Pest Survey - 4th Week of June
As the grapes grow, we again started to catch grape berry moth in one of our Northwest locations (Wilkes Co.), …
Grape Pest Survey- 3rd Week of June
Glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) detections continue in both of our Northeast sites, in Perquimans and Currituck Co., and we captured our …
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