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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…

Overturned and stacked beehive boxes and frames beside intact beehives on muddy ground

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 the purview of local officials, but here are some things you can do to try and avoid any…

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…

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…