What Foliar Insecticides Are Recommended for Tobacco in 2017?
The insecticide toolbox in tobacco has changed significantly during the past year. As many growers and extension personnel are …
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Tobacco Production Guides Online
Production guides for 2017 are now available online! These include the NC Flue Cured Tobacco Information Guide and the multi …
Studying Strawberry Pollination
Our laboratory is excited to begin a new project aimed at answering several questions about pollination ecology in strawberries.These questions …
What to Watch For: Caterpillars in Berries
The season’s first question about caterpillars in blueberries has arrived, so growers and homeowners should be on the look …
Corn Earworm Abundant Early in Tobacco
Our laboratory is beginning a project to determine the baseline susceptibility of tobacco-feeding tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens) populations throughout …
Video Guide to Tobacco Insect Scouting
Graduate student Jeremy Slone is an expert in tobacco insect scouting methods, having recently defended his masters thesis, “Overcoming …
Preventing and Managing Spotted Wing Drosophila Infestation
Our recent mild winter raised concerns about the potential for early season spotted wing drosophila (SWD) damage to berries, …
Organic Tobacco Flea Beetle Management
In addition to questions about organic aphid management in tobacco, I have also received several questions about organic flea …
Arthropod Management Tests - an Open Access Source for Insecticide Efficacy Data
A recent change to the publishing model for journals produced by the Entomological Society of America has the potential …
Asking About Organic Aphid Management in Tobacco
I have recently received a few question about organic aphid management in tobacco, specifically about efficacy of different foliar …
Budworms Are Hatching, but It Pays to Wait Until They Reach Threshold to Treat
We observed our first budworm of the season this week in our research at the Upper Coastal Plain Research …
What to Watch For: Soil Insects in Organic Tobacco
Organic tobacco acreage has increased throughout the southeast for 2015, and along with this increase has come more questions …