The warm weather from April 8 – April 14 approximately doubled the previously accumulated growing degree days (GDDs) at all three of our WeevilTrak sites...

The Penn State Turfgrass Entomology Lab will be monitoring the same WeevilTrak courses this year as we did last year: Westfield Country Club in northeastern...

We are entering a period when we typically start to observe 2nd generation larval feeding damage in the Pennslyvania. Turf is incredibly stressed right...

A lot has happened since my last WeevilTrak post, including the completion of many of our chemical trials, and the appearance of annual bluegrass weevil...

We are rapidly advancing through the first generation in Pennsylvania. Each week seems to bring a new WeevilTrak stage—and a ton of rain. Today is May...

The bizarre weather year continues for Pennsylvania. Last week alone (April 30 to May 4) saw our ABW population shift into a higher gear.

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 Turfgrass Entomology Laboratory at Penn State is looking forward to another WeevilTrak season…..whenever that may be. The recent snowfall generated...

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...

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...

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...

Significant adult movement was detected in Pittsburgh last Monday (April 10th). The most amount of adults were collected from edges of fairways, but...

Weevil season is officially underway in western Pennsylvania. Yesterday, (Monday March 27th) I was in the Pittsburgh area to check out the adult movement...

In my last Weevil Trak blog ( "Where have all the weevils gone?" ), I lamented on the fact that I might be out of a job since we had come to the end of...

The 2016 ABW season was (and still possibly is) lined up to be a very challenging year, especially with the earlier-than-normal start to the season, a...

This spring was unusual, though as we approach July, ABW stages appear to be more in-line with previous years. We will have completed Generation 1 by...

2016 is shaping up to be the inverse of 2015. The hot and dry conditions in May 2015 accelerated the development of larvae, and larvicide applications...

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...