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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…

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 - 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…

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…

Grapevine with small green grape clusters trained on trellis wire in a vineyard

Grape Pest Survey 5th Week of May

Our last site in the southwest of the state has been added to the pest survey this week in Rowan County. Now we have the 8 field sites throughout the state.The Grape berry moth (GBM) continues to…

Grape Pest Survey - 4th Week of May

As we move towards the end of May, a few vineyards are still in blossom and others are setting fruit. We started catching the Grape Berry moth, Paralobesia viteana, in a field site in Johnston Co.…