Fruit Pest News

Fruit Pest News

Volume 3, No. 17 July 8, 2002

A weekly, online newsletter whose goal is to update Extension agents and growers of commercial tree fruit and small fruit crops

on diseases and insects in Tennessee.

Editor's Note: If you looked for us last week and missed us, it was because of the partial shutdown of the state government resulting from the budget impasse in the General Assembly. Our weekly schedule of Fruit Pest News now resumes.

In This Issue:

1. Subject index

2. Pheromone trap catches

The focus of this issue of Fruit Pest News is a subject index for all issues to date for this year. This index will allow you to review a topic, and there should be new readers (hopefully) who might wish to read certain topics that they missed. The opening page of the Fruit Pest News web site contains a list of all of the issues. You can connect to the issue of interest there.

We want to take this opportunity to thank you for your readership. Please help us spread the word to other interested readers. This newsletter is for you, so please let us know how we can improve it to serve you better. Suggestions for topics to address are very welcome. The greatest need I see is for more scouting reports from across the state. We're grateful for the insect trap counts that some of you have been sending us. We would like to hear when you see a disease or insect for the first time for the year, or if you are experiencing a severe outbreak. The weekly format of this newsletter is designed for reporting such time-sensitive news. Try to phone or e-mail us your news. Of course, all reports are kept anonymous (unless you want us to use your name!). (SB)

Fruit Pest News Index, 3/11/02 through 6/27/02

Crop	Subject	Issue Date
Apple	Alternaria leaf blotch, description and control	6/17
	Apogee growth regulator	5/6
	Assail insecticide registration	6/3
	codling moth, degree days for	6/17, 6/24
	diseases, summer, control program	6/10
	dormant oil spray	3/11
	fire blight, alert	4/15
	fire blight, early-season control (copper, pruning)	3/25
	fire blight, first report of year	4/29
	fire blight, MaryBlyt, description and update	3/18, 4/8
	fire blight, shoot blight, first report of year	5/20
	fire blight, secondary blooms, importance of	5/6
	fire blight, summertime control strategies	5/20, 6/3
	fire blight, trauma blight	5/27, 6/3
	fungicide spray program, early-season	4/1
	Glomerella leaf blotch, description and control	6/17
	insects, degree-days, calculating	4/30
	insects, new control recommendations	3/11
	insects, pheromone traps, how to use	4/8
	insects, pheromone traps, count updates	4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/20, 6/3, 6/17, 6/24
	necrotic leaf blotch of Golden Delicious, description and control	6/3, 6/17
	phytotoxicity reminder for Quadris/Abound	5/13
	powdery mildew, description and control	4/22
	plant bugs, description	6/10
	redbanded leafroller moth activity	3/25
	sooty blotch/flyspeck prediction	6/24
	tufted apple budmoth	4/29, 5/20
Blackberry and Raspberry	double blossom - see "rosette"
	orange rust, description and control	4/29
	rosette, description and control	4/15, 6/10
	production without Benlate	3/11, 4/22
Blueberry	Abound, new registration	3/11
	twig blight, description and control	4/8
Cherry	leaf spot, description and control	6/24
Grape	black rot, critical period for	5/13
	black rot, spray program strategies	5/13, 5/20
	Botrytis bunch rot, time for spray	5/20
	fungicide spray program, early-season	4/22
	Phomopsis cane and leaf spot, fungicides for	4/22
	Pierce's disease, description and control	4/1
	powdery mildew, fungicides for	4/22
Peach and other stone fruits	bacterial spot, description and control	5/13
	brown rot, description and control	6/24
	brown rot, fungicide trial results	6/24
	dormant oil spray	3/1
	green fruit rot, description and control	5/13
	insects, pheromone traps, count updates	4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/20, 6/3, 6/17, 6/24
	Oriental fruit moth	4/29, 6/17, 6/24
	plant bugs, description	6/10
	plum curculio	6/17
	scab, description and control	5/3, 5/27
	shuck-split fungicide applications	4/22
	virus-testing program for purchased trees	3/18
Strawberry	anthracnose, scouting and control	3/25, 4/15, 4/22
	Botrytis - see "gray mold"
	disease control after harvest, matted row	6/3
	disease control during harvest	4/22
	disease reports	5/6
	fungicides, designing a spray program	3/25, 4/15, 4/22
	gray mold, sanitation and cultural practices for control	3/11
	mites, twospotted	5/6
	Phytophthora crown rot, scouting and control	4/29
Miscellaneous	Acramite miticide registration	3/25
	Cabrio registration delayed	5/27
	current conditions and crop development stages	3/11, 3/18, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/20
	benomyl (Benlate) fungicide situation	4/22
	fungicides, small-batch preparation	5/13
	fungicides, effect of rain on wash-off	5/27
	Nemacur cancelled	5/27
	ORCHARDASYST computer program	6/3
	Phytophthora diseases	4/1
	pesticide and fertilizer security	6/10
	Secure® miticide	3/25
	tomatoes, fusarium wilt, description & control	5/27
	spray guides (commercial), how to obtain	3/11

Pheromone Trap Catches and Biofixes

Nashville (Davidson County) Pheromone Trap Catches for 2002

3-15 put out	OFM	RBLR	OBLR	CM
3-21	0	34	0	put out
3-25	0	8	0	0
3-26	0	5	0	1
3-27	0	0	0	0
3-28	2 biofix	0	0	1 biofix
4-3	8	30	0	1
4-11	5	15	0	1
4-18	66	10	0	0
4-25	58	1	0	0
5-2	27	0	0	0
5-6	13	0	5	0
5-20	23	35	22	0
5-28	35	46	25	0
6-3	18	6	4	0
6-11	27	3	8	0
6-17	11	3	4	0
6-24	28	0	0	0
6-28	9	1	1	0
7-8	16	5	2	0

Biofix for RBLR in Davidson County estimated as March 14

Bradley County Pheromone Trap Catches

3-14 put out traps	OFM	RBLR	CM	TABM
3-15	6 biofix	67	0
3-16	6	49	0
3-17	30	18	0
3-18	38	14	0
3-23	55	21	0
3-30	14	5	0
4-6	23	5	0
4-13	46	18	1
4-20	77	23	20
4-27	63	13	61	8 biofix
5-4	22	0	12	17
5-11	13	4	9	2
5-18	24	43	67	6
5-25	7	8	6	4
6-1	32	30	4	2
6-8	9	22	11	5

Codling moth biofix was April 14

Putnam County Pheromone Trap Catches

	OFM	RBLR	CM	TABM
4-2	0	11	2 biofix	0
4-3	0	33	4	0
4-5	0	7	0	0
4-12	24	31	2	0
4-19	11	73	0	2 biofix
4-26	3	11	0	20
5-3	7	0	1	41
5-10	2	2	0	16
5-17	2	25	0	15
5-24	0	5	0	3
5-31	1	42	0	1
6-7	7	10	0	0
6-15	3	2	0	0
6-21	0	3	0	0
6-28	3	0	0	0
7-5	17	14	0	0