Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, August 14 2015
We are seeing more flea beetle feeding at sites with the lowest leaves still present on plants and consistently seeing beetles …
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Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, July 31 2015
Similar to recent weeks, we are still in a bit of a midsummer lull for pest pressure. However, we still …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, July 10 2015
Budworm populations have surpassed threshold at all IPM sites to date, and all but one field has been treated. It …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, July 3 2015
This week we saw an increase in budworm pressure across nearly all sites. Given that some sites will be …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, June 19 2015
Plants at sites throughout the state are reaching the button stage where the plant begins to produce unopened flowers …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, May 8, 2015
We’ve begun scouting in some our sites for this field season! It’s warming up outside and we are excited to …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, September 12, 2014
We are at week twenty of scouting. Scouting was done earlier in the week for the Piedmont site, and now they are …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, September 5, 2014
We are at week nineteen of scouting, and harvesting is happening at all locations. The Piedmont site continued with harvesting this week …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. August 22, 2014
It is week seventeen with our scouting reports, and not much change can be seen. There are still a …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. August 15, 2014
It is week sixteen of our weekly scouting report, and harvest has begun! Most sites are beginning to harvest and …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. August 8, 2014
It is now the fifteenth week of scouting! The budworm pressure has dropped significantly over the past couple of …
Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. August 4, 2014
It is week fourteen of our weekly scouting program, and numbers remain low. Flea beetle numbers have increased somewhat but …
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 …
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 …
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