IPM for Vegetable & Fruit Crops

Trapping data – Traps are out on farms throughout the state, and we’re monitoring for squash vine borer and the major sweet corn insect pests (Europea... Learn More

Today’s episode of Spotlight on Research focuses on a paper published in the journal Horticultural Entomology in 2014. A pair of researchers from East... Learn More

Welcome to Spotlight on Research! Every year, researchers publish thousands of studies and in hundreds of journals – and most aren’t really accessible... Learn More

The NH Fruit Growers’ Association Annual Meeting, originally scheduled for March 19, featured a jam-packed schedule including presentations about poll... Learn More

Dial Fruit Pest Hotline (603-862-3763) Anna Wallingford here, your new extension specialist in entomology and IPM! I’ve been calculating my degree ... Learn More

Dr. Tom Davis (UNH Professor of Plant Biology/Genetics) would like to study evolved resistance to glyphosate-containing herbicides (i.e., Roundup). He... Learn More

Blackbirds and starlings can be a severe problem in sweet corn; the birds shred the husks and peck the kernels, rendering the ears unmarketable. Even ... Learn More

Cabbage aphid, sometimes called ‘gray aphid’ because of its’ waxy gray appearance, is a major pest of brassica crops. It has been particularly problem... Learn More

Yes, you read it correctly. If you have tomato leaf mold, Chris Smart and her team at Cornell are studying this pathogen; and she needs ... Learn More

Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) flies are being caught in traps in southern NH, ME, and elsewhere in New England in low numbers. As in recent ... Learn More