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Last week marked the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. The afternoons were marked with warm sun and many different plants in the landscape were...
Our lab spent much of the week looking for annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) adults, and trying to get a handle on where the majority of the adult population...
Annual bluegrass weevils (ABW) are finally on the move in New England. We visited a site about 20 miles from the University of Massachusetts campus earlier...
As expected, the warm Easter weekend shook things up in the mid-Atlantic from a growing degree day (GDD) and phenological indicator standpoint.
Albeit slowly, we have started to accumulate growing degree days (GDD). Currently, the Maryland sites have about 30 GDD. Sites in Philadelphia and Southern...
As spring-like conditions slowly make their way back into the Northeast, we can consider this the "calm before the storm". We have not yet accumulated...
As encouraging as it was to see some adult Annual Bluegrass Weevils (ABW) last week, if for no other reason than to get ourselves calibrated to begin...
Based on my observations through our own studies and conversations with colleagues, USGA agronomists and superintendents estimate that any golf course...
As eager as every turf professional is to get the season started and break cabin fever, based on some discoveries on March 27th, this is also evident with ABW.
Before WeevilTrak™, there was more confusion as to timing and choice of insecticides to control the annual bluegrass weevil (ABW). This confusion led...
This is the first year I will be participating in WeevilTrak™, though I have been an interested observer since the program's inception. I have been investigating...
Insecticide resistance in annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) populations is a growing problem. It is a course-by-course issue based on excessive insecticide...
As the snow has melted throughout Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and southern Pennsylvania, we have started to accumulate growing degree day (GDD) units.
Winter is finally showing signs of loosening its grip on the Northeast, in spite of this photo of the Watchdog monitor I maintain in my backyard.
The annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) is an insect that can get very "angry"- in regards to insecticide resistance that is.
At Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Ithaca, NY, a weather tracker stands vigil in a field of snow. Awaiting the accumulation of growing degree-days...
The annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) is a relatively new pest for much of the region I will be monitoring for WeevilTrak.
I want to welcome you to the new WeevilTrak™ Blog where WeevilTrak subscribers can find updates from me and from our independent researchers. This blog...
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