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Everything is lining up that the middle of May will be a critical time for golf courses targeting annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) larvae in fine turf areas...
If you are planning to treat for ABW adults, it is important to keep your finger on the pulse and not spray on a calendar-based program when possible.
This is the time of the year to be patient with a lot of things including annual bluegrass weevil control measures. Even if you scout and find a few adults...
Tropical storm/Hurricane Ida brought some of the heaviest rainfall totals I have ever seen in my career in a few just an hours to much of CT, western...
August is always a very important and tough month for golf course care in the Mid-Atlantic and North East regions. A few of the major issues include...
After a quiet late June and early July, ABW larvae have shown up in full force in mid-to-late July 2021.
ABW has been and will likely continue to be one of the most intractable insect pests of fine turfgrass throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions...
All of the phenological indicators are pointing at full bloom Rhododendron as a great tool for targeting larvae before damage occurs. Throughout the Mid...
There was no clear peak of ABW adults in all of the sites I am watching for weevils along with my research sites. This made adult treatment difficult...
I have been looking for annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) adults every day since early March. On a few of the warmest days of the year so far, I have found...
2020 will go down as crazy and wild year in many factors of our lives. 2020 was a pretty temperate year for annual bluegrass weevils (ABW) as a whole...
The 2020 year has been one of uncertainties in many areas and it’s true for annual bluegrass weevils (ABW) as well.
Trying to predict annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) activity after the middle of July is like trying to predict rainfall in the Mid-Atlantic during the third...
We started to first see some annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) damage in northern Virginia and Maryland on May 22 to May 25.
In my career, I thought I had heard every question possible from golf course superintendents until this week. I had a superintendent ask me if I thought...
As many of you follow the news, you hear terms typically used in statistics classes like peak, plateau, spike, curve, and similar when trying to predict...
As the managing consultant of WeevilTrak, I am working with other scientists and we plan to do our best this year with trying to predict the best timing...
As we return from Labor Day weekend, I am hearing about and seeing, every stage of annual bluegrass weevils, in isolated spots. 2019 has been a tough...
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