Click on photos to enlarge. David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Frank Drummond, Professor of Insect Ecology/Entomology We have found numerous spotted wing drosophila (SWD) fruit flies in raspberry and highbush blueberry plantings in Maine over the past week, in nearly every location that we have set up traps […]
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Sweet Corn IPM Newsletter No. 4 – July 14, 2017 Click on photos to enlarge. Highmoor Farm Field Day Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Save the date! FALL ARMYWORM ACTIVE IN CORN FIELDS Corn Earworm Spreading Throughout State SITUATION More fields are coming into silk this week and growth is looking good overall. Unfortunately, corn earworm […]
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Strawberry IPM Newsletter No. 6 – July 11, 2017 Click on photos to enlarge. RENOVATION AND WEED MANAGEMENT ISSUE Get Your Strawberry Beds Ready for Next Year Manage Pests in Day-Neutral Strawberries Not a bad winter, by Maine standards, but some fields did show a small amount of winter injury this spring. The extremely dry […]
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Sweet Corn IPM Newsletter No. 3 – July 7, 2017 Click on photos to enlarge. Highmoor Farm Field Day Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Save the date! CORN EARWORM ACTIVE IN SILKING CORN FIELDS European Corn Borer Feeding Increasing in Pre-Tassel Fields SITUATION Early corn, planted under plastic mulch or row covers is coming into silk […]
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Sweet Corn IPM Newsletter No. 2 – June 30, 2017 Click on photos to enlarge. Highmoor Farm Field Day Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Save the date! CORN EARWORM THREATENS EARLY SILKING CORN European Corn Borer Feeding in Pre-Tassel Fields SITUATION Cool, wet growing conditions this spring delayed planting in many fields, and those that were […]
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Sweet Corn IPM Newsletter No. 1 – June 23, 2017 Click on photos to enlarge. 2017 SWEET CORN PEST SEASON BEGINS! European Corn Borer Active in Early Fields The 2017 University of Maine Cooperative Extension Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program for sweet corn is underway. More than twenty volunteer farms are serving as pest monitoring […]
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Strawberry IPM Newsletter No. 5 – June 16, 2017 Click on photos to enlarge. STRAWBERRY HARVEST SEASON NEAR IN SOUTHERN MAINE Are Your Fields Ready for Customers? Situation: A few ripe berries can be found in southern Maine this week. Most growers are expecting the start of the harvest season to be about a week […]
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Strawberry IPM Newsletter No. 4 – June 9, 2017 Click on photos to enlarge. STRAWBERRY INSECT PEST PRESSURE REMAINS LOW Continue Protection Against Gray Mold through Bloom Berry Growers Twilight Meeting Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. Lavigne’s Farm in Sanford, Maine 04073 Venue phone: 207.324.5497 Situation: Cool, wet weather continues to slow plant […]
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Strawberry IPM Newsletter No. 3 – June 2, 2017 Click on photos to enlarge. STRAWBERRY BLOOM TIME: MANAGE FUNGUS DISEASES Scouting Report: Clipper Activity Increasing Berry Growers Twilight Meeting Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. Lavigne’s Farm in Sanford, Maine Situation: Many of the fields scouted this week are just in the early bloom […]
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Strawberry IPM Newsletter No. 2 – May 26, 2017 Click on photos to enlarge. SLOW GROWTH IN THE STRAWBERRY FIELDS Mites, Clipper Activity Increasing Berry Growers Twilight Meeting Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. Lavigne’s Farm in Sanford, Maine Situation: Cool, wet weather predominates, slowing strawberry development. Early fields in southern Maine are coming […]
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