Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. July 25, 2014
It is now week thirteen of scouting, and our one of our locations has begun harvest! There has been …
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Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. July 17, 2014
It is now week twelve for our weekly scouting report and pest pressure is lower compared to the past few …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. July 9, 2014
It is week eleven for our weekly scouting reports. Budworm pressure is relatively similar to last week. With most sites …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. July 3, 2014
We are in our tenth week of scouting, and tobacco budworms are still active at most sites. Although, fewer …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. June 26, 2014
It is our ninth week of scouting, and we are starting to see higher numbers of tobacco budworms at …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. June 12, 2014
It is our seventh week of scouting at our IPM and grower standard fields. The tobacco plants are looking healthy, …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. June 6, 2014
It is our sixth week of tobacco scouting, and this week brought a few changes. A small number of plants …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. May 30, 2014
Our weekly scouting, now in week five, has shown a slight increase in flea beetle activity, but still well …
Questions About Thrips in Tobacco
This week growers, agents, and consultants have noticed unusually large numbers of thrips on tobacco. This is no surprise …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. May 21, 2014
Plants have grown quite a bit in the last week, likely due to increased rainfall. There were a couple of …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. May 16, 2014
It is week three monitoring the Integrated Pest Management fields and the grower standard fields in our Eastern and …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. May 9, 2014
It is week two for scouting in our Eastern 1 and 2 research fields. In order to potentially reduce …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Update. May 2, 2014
This summer, we have begun a new project focussed on implementing integrated pest management (IPM) practices for insects in …
Weed Seed Concerns in Tobacco Highlighted in Southeast Farm Press
Recent concerns with weed seed contamination in tobacco are highlight in the Southeast Farm Press which also describes research at …
Hornworm Activity in Eastern NC Tobacco
In the past week, we’ve noticed a dramatic jump in the number of hornworm caterpillars and eggs in our test plots …
Mid Summer Tobacco Insect Update
Caterpillars Large and Small So far this year, tobacco budworm numbers of in our research plots at both Kinston and …
Questions About Tank Mixing Pesticides in Tobacco
This week, I have received several questions about possible phytotoxcity associated with insecticide applications directed against tobacco budworm. The …
Mark Your Calendar for the NC State University Tobacco Tour!
The 2013 NC State University Tobacco Tour is scheduled for July 15-16 in eastern NC and July 17 in …
Tobacco Budworm Activity Beginning
I received my first tobacco budworm calls for 2013 today, so it’s safe to say that budworm moths are …
Aphids in Tobacco Greenhouses
It has been a relative quiet spring for insect questions in tobacco, but last week I received several calls …
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