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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 - 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- 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…

Clusters of ripening grapes on a vine branch in a vineyard

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…

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 moth in Rowan Co. but also, in Wilkes and Currituck Co. Their presence is…

Hand holding a cluster of unripe green grapes on a grapevine with leaves

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 berry moth at our Rowan Co. location, although in very low numbers. In other…

Vineyard trellis with green grape clusters hanging from leafy vines

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 moth is present at only one location, in Wilkes Co.The leaf hopper,Graphocephala…

Grapevines trained on trellis rows with new leaves in grassy vineyard under blue sky

2019 Grape Insect Pest Survey

This spring, the Specialty Crop IPM Lab is scouting vineyards in throughout North Carolina in order to track the seasonal biology and abundance of several key insect pests in both muscadine and…

White fuzzy mealybug scale insect attached to green fruit near stem

Mealybugs in North Carolina Grapes

During the last two weeks, there have been several reports of mealybugs in wine grape vineyards. Mealybugs are sucking insects, the females of which are often coated with white wax. As a by-product…

Large wasp clinging to black surface, showing striped abdomen and folded wings

Other Moths That May Be in Grape Root Borer Traps

A grower who recently started monitoring for grape root borer moths in their vineyard sent me images of moths he'd captured in traps yesterday, wondering what they were.