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The past month has been fairly slow for ABW activity. I have had more conversations with superintendents that are just not seeing the populations of...
We've reached the point in the season in the mid-Atlantic when we tend to see more of the damage associated with annual bluegrass weevil larvae feeding...
The last week of May was a very busy time in North Carolina in terms of ABW management. At both northern and southern sites, adult and larval numbers...
Many of the golf courses in southern New England are approaching the end of the first generation. Samples we received this week from our WeevilTrak sites...
It's June 21st and the first generation of ABW is over for many courses.Overall, those that followed the WeevilTrak program had good results controlling...
In central New Jersey, annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) populations should be primarily in the pupa stage and/or the teneral (new, still reddish) adult stage...
We are nearing the end of the 1st generation larvae in many locations between Ohio and central Pennsylvania. ABW damage was very apparent during the...
Let me start this blog by saying that the annual bluegrass weevil continues to give us a roller coaster ride and not one year is the same. Currently in...
As we lead into the unofficial start of summer here in the Mid-Atlantic, we are now having the occasional cool/cold day mixed in amongst predominately...
We started to find consistent densities of annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) larvae in untreated check plots throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern...
Although the weather has continued to throw us for a loop, particularly in northern North Carolina, temperatures have consistently stayed in the 60s or...
It has been a month since my last blog post. At that time, adulticide applications were being made in western Pennsylvania, and central Pennsylvania and...
This week I have two very different scenarios to offer, and I am scratching my head over it. In central New Jersey at Pine Brook Golf Course, adult densities...
While adult ABW densities stay high, small larvae have started to show up on fairways in central and northern NJ. In fact, at both Pine Brook Golf Course...
The samples we received from two of our cooperators (Chicopee, MA and Albany, NY) had a couple second instars in them this week. The warm weather we experienced...
It's always fun and helpful to compare present pest and cultural problems to the past. Did this problem occur earlier, or later than last year? Are we...
March and the early part of April were quite cool, so the overwintering weevils did not start moving at many southern New England locations until last...
We have now officially pulled up the anchor in Northern Virginia and Maryland and ABW populations are running at full speed. We've accumulated over 200...
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