March 29, 1999 Volume 8 No. 2 Update on Pest Management and Crop Development

Coming Events & Current Situation
Diseases
Insects
General Information

Scaffolds is published weekly from March to September by Cornell University -- NYS Agricultural Experiment Station (Geneva), and Ithaca -- with the assistance of Cornell Cooperative Extension.

New York field reports welcomed. Send submissions by 3 p.m. Monday to:

Scaffolds Fruit Journal

Editors: A. Agnello, D. Kain

Dept. of Entomology, NYSAES

Geneva, NY 14456-0462

Phone: 315-787-2341 FAX: 315-787-2326

Scaffolds 99 index

COMING EVENTS

43°F

50°F

Current DD accumulations (Geneva 1/1-3/29):

39

8

(Highland 1/1-3/29):

91

25

Coming Events:

Ranges:

 

Green fruitworm 1st catch

41-143

9-69

Pear psylla adults active

2-121

0-49

Pear psylla 1st oviposition

25-147

1-72

McIntosh at silver tip

56-137

17-58

Phenologies

(Geneva): All dormant

(Highland): Apple: Silver Tip

Pear (Bartlett): Swollen Bud

PEST FOCUS

Highland: Pear Psylla 1st oviposition

 

TRAP CATCHES (Number/trap/day)

Geneva
 

3/25

3/29

Green Fruitworm

-

0

Redbanded Leafroller

-

0

Spotted Tentiform Leafminer

-

0

Highland (Dick Straub, Peter Jentsch):

 

3/29

Green Fruitworm

0.1*

Spotted Tentiform Leafminer

0

Redbanded Leafroller

0

* = 1st catch

 

3.29 Diseases