Breakthrough in codling moth control
Dr. Doug Light with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California, and Dr. Alan Knight
RAMP focuses on reduced-risk pest controls
Apples and peaches, high-value crops in eastern United States, were the focus of a regional research project aimed at finding
Southern Hemisphere apple crop down
Representatives of Southern Hemisphere tree fruit producers report that their 2006 apple crop is 8 percent smaller than last year’s,
Controlling apple and peach pests without OPs
Results from a reduced-risk pest management research trial in eastern states show that high-quality tree fruit can be grown without
EPA offers help to growers
Sandra Halstead, Agriculture Initiative specialist, oversees a grants program that not only helps growers meet EPA regulations, but gives
Lorsban implicated in pesticide exposure tests
Early season is when orchard workers are most likely to be exposed to cholinesterase-depressing pesticides, judging by Washington State’s cholinesterase-monitoring
Apple maggot continues to spread
Apple maggot is not difficult to control, but it is a serious problem if found in orchards because it’s a
Obliquebanded leafroller displaces pandemis
The obliquebanded leafroller has displaced pandemis as the primary leafroller pest in north central Washington. Mike Doerr, entomologist with Washington
You can’t stop drift, but you can reduce the risks
All sprays drift, but pesticide users can reduce the impact of drift by using lower-risk pesticides. Dr. Alan Felsot, environmental
Apple attractant not found yet
Researchers have been unable to duplicate whatever it is in apples that attracts codling moths. Dr. Peter Landolt, research leader