All three of the sites that our lab monitors for WeevilTrak advanced to Stage 1 (Apply Adulticides) during the last week (April 18-22). These areas include...

Things are happening in southern North Carolina! In the last week or so, annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) adults have become active and we have seen increased...

ABW adult activity has certainly been anything but predictable so far this season, but that shouldn't come as any surprise to any superintendent in the...

So far, the weather this year has been all over the place. High temperatures in December, January and February had many worried that we would see record...

When the temperature hit 78°F in central New Hampshire on March 9, I thought we were in for a very early, spring weevil emergence. But the recent cooler...

We are hurtling toward the start of ABW season in central and western Pennsylvania. This has been a bizarre season so far, but we have come to expect...

The topsy-turvy temperatures of the past two weeks throughout the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic regions have gotten a lot of people talking - talking...

Which is the worst golf course insect pest in the Northeast? The answer to that may seem obvious to most people reading this WeevilTrak Blog: annual bluegrass...

With a relatively mild winter, smattered with a few cold streaks and the unseasonably warm trend we've experienced through March thus far, a lot of folks...

It may have felt like spring, or even summer this week in most locations of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, however the calendar tells us that...

I have received quite a few reports of ABW damage in the last few weeks, occurring on golf courses from northern New York to southern Virginia. The reports...

After a season talking about insecticides and insecticide resistance, we should not forget one thing: The most sensible and effective way to deal with...

Over the past three weeks, in the Mid-Atlantic region, we have experienced a significant amount of evapotranspiration and very little rainfall. Most golf...

June brought a lot of rainfall for the Mid-Atlantic region. There were a number of golf courses in the Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia corridor...

You might remember that this past spring we were testing the standard adulticides and larvicides on four golf courses with pyrethroid resistance levels...

2015 has been a wacky year for weather and in turn, insects. The benign conditions have allowed insect pests, including Annual Bluegrass Weevil (ABW...

Currently, throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania and South New Jersey we are observing an increase in mature and callow adult activity on the turf surface...

Last week was the first big flush of first generation (summer) adults that we have observed in central Pennsylvania. You might be wondering, "I am just...