Fruit & Vegetable Crops

The house fly, Musca domestica, is a familiar insect pest. It is of economic importance because it can transmit disease-causing organisms, such as sal...

The seedcorn maggot, Delia platura, was probably introduced from Europe in the mid-1800’s and is now widely distributed in the U.S. and Canada. This m...

The apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella) is one of the most important economic insect pests of apples in New Hampshire. This native insect is also know...

The European earwig (Forficula auricularia) is a common pest of homes and gardens in New England and can be quite destructive to house and garden plan...

The plum curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar) is the most serious insect pest of apples and among the most destructive insect pests of peaches. It also a...

Corn earworm, Fall armyworm, and European corn borer caterpillars can all infest the ears of sweet corn. The most reliable way to identify them is to ...

We recommend control sprays and treatment intervals based on the number of pest moths collected in pheromone traps. Because large changes in pest dens...

The New Hampshire IPM Newsletter has been published by Alan Eaton, UNH Extension Entomologist, who retired in December. (For NH IPM Newsletter posts f...

Corn Earworm Traps<br /> <br /> When<br /> <br /> Begin monitoring for corn earworm in late June or early July. You want to have the trap up and r...

We have two species of borers that attack trunks or branches of peach trees in New Hampshire. The most destructive (and larger of the two) is the peac...