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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 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…

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…

Row of grapevines on trellis with green grape clusters in a grassy vineyard

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.), although at low numbers. Captures were zero in the rest of locations.Glassy-winged…

small brown and reddish insect resting on a green leaf

Grape Pest Survey- 2nd Week of June

We are starting to catch the glassy winged sharpshooter, a vector of Pierce's diseases(PD) in one of our northeast fields. Also, another vector of PD, the leaf hopper Graphocephala versuta is…