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We are nearing the end of April and are currently running about 100 growing degree days (GDD) behind where we were in 2017 in central and western Pennsylvania...
The annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) season is off to a very slow start in southern New England. We are monitoring five sites for the Syngenta WeevilTrak...
Been a long time coming, but annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) season is officially here. Because we are monitoring in completely different regions of western...
In my last blog in March, I speculated about the effect of the two-week spell of very cold weather around the New Year on annual bluegrass weevil (ABW...
The Turfgrass Entomology Laboratory at Penn State is looking forward to another WeevilTrak season…..whenever that may be. The recent snowfall generated...
Another season approaching, another Nor’easter in the forecast! This seems to have been the trend the past few weeks here in the mid-Atlantic and north...
The March of 2018 has been a lot like the March of 2017. Snowfall, cold nights and cool days have marked the weather in the Mid-Atlantic region. Following...
Many golf course superintendents in coastal New England have three feet of snow on the ground – or more! And there are rumors of yet another storm heading...
Another WeevilTrak season is ahead of us. I’ll be again keeping track of annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) at Pine Brook Golf Course in Manalapan, New Jersey...
September 2017 was warmer than July and August. For most of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, there was no measurable rainfall from Sept. 6 until...
As the weevil population winds down in northern New England, it's not too early to plan for next year. While your memory is still fresh, ask yourself...
This year has been unusually "quiet" for ABW activity in southern New England. At least I received very few phone calls or e-mails asking how to manage...
For most golf courses, the annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) season should be pretty much over. In fact, at the two courses I have monitored for WeevilTrak...
Much of the Mid-Atlantic region has received plenty of rainfall the past five weeks. I am hearing yearly totals in the Philadelphia area above 22-25...
If you have been keeping up with WeevilTrak blog posts from my colleagues, you may notice that, in the last few weeks, the general consensus is that weevil...
In central and northern NJ, larvae of the 1st summer generation are developing and could start causing problems if they reach high enough densities. ...
My observations of the summer of 2017 very closely mirror those of my colleagues. In general, weevil damage in southern New England seems to be lower...
If I were to rank this season among previous ABW seasons, I would say that this has been one of the easier years. I have really struggled to find weevils...
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