Fruit Pest News

Volume 6, No. 15    June 28, 2005

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:  Fruit Pest News will be published every other week for the remainder of the 2005 growing season.  The next issue will be July 12. Have a happy 4th!


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, 3/15/05 through 6/28/045

Crop

Subject

Issue Date

Apple

Alternaria leaf blotch, description and control

6/14

 

caterpillar defoliators

4/19

 

cedar-apple rust, description

4/19

 

copper spray, time for

3/29

 

dormant oil spray

3/15

 

fire blight, breaking out

5/17

 

fire blight, MaryBlyt, description and update

3/24, 4/12

 

fire blight, secondary blooms, importance of

5/10

 

fungicide spray program, bloom & petal fall

4/19

 

fungicide spray program, early-season

4/5

 

Glomerella leaf blotch, description and control

6/14

 

insecticide sprays needed at green tip

3/29

 

insects, pheromone traps, count updates

3/15, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/24, 6/7, 6/14, 6/23

 

insects photographs

4/5

 

Japanese beetles

6/23

 

leafhoppers

5/24

 

mites, European red

4/12

 

necrotic leaf blotch of Golden Delicious, description and control

6/14

 

Oriental friut moth

3/29

 

phytotoxicity reminder for Quadris/Abound

5/10

 

rust diseases

4/19

 

sooty blotch/flyspeck, accumulated wetting hours

5/17, 5/24, 5/31, 6/7, 6/14

 

summer rots

5/24, 6/7

 Blackberry and Raspberry

anthracnose

5/3

 

double blossom - see "rosette"

 

 

certified plants, source

3/29

 

orange rust, description and control

4/26, 5/17

 

rosette, description and control

4/19

 

rapberry bushy dwarf virus

5/31

 

Septoria leaf spot of raspberry, description & control

6/23

 

spray program, fungicides, for blackberry

5/3

Blueberry

twig blight, description and control

4/12

Cherry

leaf spot, description and control

6/21

Cucurbit Crops

powdery mildew, planning

5/24

 

spray program for disease control

6/21

Grape

black rot, infection periods for May

5/31

 

berry moth

5/10, 6/7

 

black rot, critical period

4/26

 

Botrytis bunch rot, time for spray

5/17

 

climbing cutworm

4/26

 

fungicide spray program, early-season

4/12

 

grape cane gallmaker

5/17

Peach and other stone fruits

bacterial spot, description and control

5/24

 

brown rot, description and control

6/14

 

copper use

3/29

 

disease control

4/19

 

insects, pheromone traps, count updates

See apple

 

insecticide sprays needed at petal fall

5/3

 

leaf curl

5/3

 

Oriental fruit moth, degree-day predictions

6/7

 

Oriental fruit moth, mating disruption

3/29

 

plum curculio & Oriental friut moth

5/3, 6/14

 

San Jose scale

4/12, 5/10

 

thrips

3/29

 

virus- tested trees

3/29

Strawberry

anthracnose control, plant dip

4/5

 

Botrytis - see "gray mold"

 

 

disease control after harvest, matted row

6/7

 

fungicide reminder

4/5

 

gray mold, leaf sanitation for control

3/15

 

Phytophthora crown rot, found

4/26

 

spray schedule, fungicides

3/15

Tomato

late blight in South Carolina

6/7

 

timber rot

6/7

 Miscellaneous

current conditions and crop development stages

3/15, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3,

 

ferbum fungicide availibility

5/3

 

fungicides, effect of rain on wash-off

5/31

 

fungicides, recommendation changes for 2005 for fruit

3/15

 

fungicides, recommendation chages for 2005 for vegetables

4/5

 

fungicides, small-batch preparation

5/10

 

observations

5/10, 5/17, 5/31

 

vegetables, soybean rust control

4/19


The Fruit Pest News URL is: http://web.utk.edu/~extepp/fpn/fpn.htm

Contacts:

 

Steve Bost, Professor and Extension Plant Pathologist

scbost@utk.edu

 

Frank Hale, Professor and Extension Entomologist

fahale@utk.edu

 

Both authors available at:

615-832-6802

fax 615-781-2568

Plant and Pest Diagnostic Center

5201 Marchant Drive

Nashville, TN 37211