Monthly Archives: May 2014

Take the BMSB survey and receive a free guide to stink bug identification

Posted on by

Greetings,  As one component of the multi-state BMSB award from USDA, the Northeastern IPM Center has developed a short survey about your experiences with and response to BMSB. This is intended to take the pulse of the specialty crop stakeholder community at this point in our collective efforts to combat BMSB. I have copied the message from the NEIPM Center below, with the link to the on-line survey. Your participation would be very helpful. Until next time, best wishes – Chris

Got stink bugs? We need your help! We’re surveying growers to assess the impact of BMSB on crops and gather information that will help us defeat this pest. Receive a free Guide to Stink Bugs* if you complete the 10-minute BMSB survey (https://cornell.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5ssnjXLNhvp6v1H). Your participation will help us to help you Stop BMSB!  The survey will be available until June 30th.

Thank you from the Outreach Team for “StopBMSB,” a project focused on the biology, ecology, and management of the brown marmorated stink bug. For more info: StopBMSB.org

*see it at https://pubs.ext.vt.edu/444/444-356/444-356_pdf.pdf

Entomology updates

Posted on by

Greetings,  After some discussion, we have elected to forego having reminders of Entomology updates for degree-day accumulations, management recommendations, and pheromone trap data sent automatically via e-mail notification to those on our e-mail recipient list. We chose this option since we felt that three e-mail notifications per week through most of the growing season may be overkill. Consequently, we ask that users of this information simply bookmark the locations of relevance to them and visit them at your convenience. As we have done in previous years, we are updating degree-days, predicted egg-hatch and management recommendations for OFM, CM and TABM twice weekly, on Monday and Thursday. Data for OFM and CM are provided for Winchester, Timberville, Nelson county, Rappahannock county, and Patrick/Carroll counties. Data for TABM are provided for Winchester. Pheromone trap data from the Winchester research station are updated on Wednesdays.

Dinotefuran Section 18 approved for 2014 season

Posted on by

On April 29, the Environmental Protection Agency approved a Section 18 Emergency Exemption authorizing use of dinotefuran against brown marmorated stink bug in pome and stone fruit in VA, WV, MD and DE (some other eastern States to follow) in the 2014 growing season. Venom Insecticide can be used at rates of 4.0 – 6.75 oz/acre and Scorpion 35SL Insecticide at 8.0 – 12.0 fl oz/acre. A maximum of two applications per season is permitted (not to exceed 0.608 lb/a.i./acre/season). These products have a 12-hour REI and a 3-day PHI in pome and stone fruit crops. Dinotefuran is highly toxic to bees and cannot be used until after petal-fall. Given its efficacy against brown marmorated stink bug and its short PHI, we recommend its use later in the growing season, in the weeks and days preceding harvest. This Section 18 expires on October 15, 2014.