Rose rosette is a devastating disease that is a threat to virtually all cultivated roses (Rosa spp.) in Kentucky, regardless of cultivar. Even rose cultivars known for their exceptional disease resistance and hardiness are susceptible to rose rosette disease. Losses…
Fruit, Orchard, and Vineyard Sanitation: Cleaning Up Today May Keep Disease Away
Autumn has arrived in Kentucky, and it is time to focus on fruit, orchard, and vineyard sanitation. Good sanitation practices can help reduce disease-causing pathogens. Good sanitation practices can help reduce disease-causing pathogens. These organisms can survive for months or…
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Leaf Scorch and Winter Drying of Woody Plants (PPFS-OR-W-17)
Leaf scorch symptoms can develop whenever water needed for plant growth is insufficient, or when water is lost from leaves faster than it can be replaced from the soil. Not only can this condition occur on deciduous trees and shrubs…
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Tachinid Flies Might Have Been Actively Working this Season in Kentucky
This past July I observed tachinid flies around conglomerations of June bugs and Japanese beetles while tallying insects in industrial hemp fields (Figure 1). Yaziri Gonzalez (graduate student in Entomology) collected stink bugs in soybean fields in central and western…
Landscape Sanitation: Clean Up for Clean Plants
Autumn has arrived in Kentucky and, as leaves will soon begin to change color and fall from trees, it is time to focus on landscape sanitation. Good sanitation practices can help reduce disease-causing pathogens. These organisms can survive for months…
Heligen® is Registered under Section 24(c) to Manage Corn Earworm in Industrial Hemp in Kentucky
A naturally occurring baculovirus (Helicoverpa zea nucleopolyhedrovirus) with the commercial name of Heligen® was registered in Kentucky under FIFRA Section 24(c) (Heligen 24c KY190041 SLN Acknowledgement Letter_20190925). This is a highly specific virus used to control corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea)…
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The Fall Field Cricket, a Singing Invader
According to the calendar, we are entering the autumnal portion of 2019, even if it definitely doesn’t feel like it here in Kentucky. Hopefully, temperatures will start dropping soon and we can enjoy apple picking, pumpkin carving, and cricket singing!…
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