Blaauw
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We are a month in to the new year and I just wanted to remind everyone that if you have not already done so, it is time to start thinking about a delayed-dormant application of horticultural oil for scale insect management. The above 50°F weather makes for a lovely day, but the scale insects enjoy…
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We are now beginning to detect plum curculio and San Jose scale crawlers in Fort Valley…
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Late frost has hurt many varieties in South Carolina and Georgia this year. The varieties that escaped the frost, the late bloomers with high chill requirements, still may have fruit and will probably go on a regular spray program, even if chill requirements were not met and a reduced crop load may occur. But what…
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News came from Washington DC this week that the EPA declined to ban the use of the insecticide chlorpyrifos…
Posted in: Entomology