Black light trap in field

Black light trap catches for the week ending July 24, 2014

Nightly average catches of corn earworm moths in local black light traps were:  Charles City=18.5; New Kent=8.0; Warsaw=1.0; Essex=zero; Petersburg=1.1; Eastern Shore AREC/Painter=zero; Hampton Roads AREC/Virginia Beach=zero; Southampton=3.0; Sussex = 1.9; Suffolk=2.5.

Means per night for brown marmorated stink bug were:  Charles City=1.3; New Kent=zero; Warsaw=0.7; Essex=zero; Petersburg=26.9; Eastern Shore AREC/Painter=zero; Hampton Roads AREC/Virginia Beach=zero; Southampton=zero; Suffolk=zero.  Thank you to our trap operators for their reports this week:  John Allison, Mary Beahm, Keith Balderson, Mark Kraemer, Helene Doughty, Chris Drake, Kelvin Wells, and Ames Herbert and his entomology crew.