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Grape Pest Survey - 4th Week of September

This article is our last post for this grape season. Harvest is complete at all of our locations. We caught a few grape berry moths at the muscadine site in Rowan Co. and again found one glassy…

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Grape Pest Survey - 3rd Week of September

Our only remaining active locations is our muscadine site in Rowan County.Again, grape berry moth were caught at the location in, but in low numbers. This location will be harvested in a few days, so…

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 at our locations. At this time, only one of the Southwest locations in Rowan Co. will continue to…

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 to conclude soon. Due to the hurricane, some vineyards in eastern NC finished harvest a bit…

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 these vineyards every other weeks to observe plants for evidence of the invasive…

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 in our muscadine vineyard at Rowan Co. Grapes at this location are just starting to ripe and…

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 captured the grape berry moth again. This suggests that perhaps our traps have become more…

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. During the next couple of weeks, other vineyards will start to harvest as well.We…

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 generations. This also appears to be the case for another Pierce's Disease…

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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 although Grape berry moth is a key pest during this time, it continues to be present in low…