Resources
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| Fire Blight [fact sheet] Fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is found to some extent almost every year in New Hampshire and other major apple and pear…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Pesticide Safety Education, Yard & Garden | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Aphids [fact sheet] Aphids, or plant lice, feed on most vegetable crops, many house plants and ornamentals grown in New Hampshire, as well as numerous weeds and wild…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Pesticide Safety Education, Yard & Garden | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Apple Scab [fact sheet] Apple scab is a fungus disease that occurs worldwide wherever apples are grown. It is most severe in areas where the weather is cool and moist in the…
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Agriculture & Gardens, Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Pesticide Safety Education | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Corn Earworm [fact sheet] The corn earworm, Heliothis zea, is considered one of the worst pests of sweet corn. It might go undetected until harvest time when it is discovered…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Pesticide Safety Education | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| European Corn Borer [fact sheet] The European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) was introduced into the U.S. in 1917. Broken tassels, collapsed stalks, feeding signs on leaves, and…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Pesticide Safety Education | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Fungus Gnats [fact sheet] Fungus gnats comprise two entire families of flies, but in greenhouses, most commonly we see Mycetophilids, especially Bradysia coprophila and B.…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Greenhouse, Nursery & Garden Centers, Pesticide Safety Education | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| House Fly [fact sheet] The house fly, Musca domestica, is a familiar insect pest. It is of economic importance because it can transmit disease-causing organisms, such as…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Pesticide Safety Education | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Seedcorn Maggot [fact sheet] 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…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Pesticide Safety Education | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Apple Maggot [fact sheet] The apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella) is one of the most important economic insect pests of apples in New Hampshire. This native insect is also…
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Agriculture & Gardens, Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Plant Disease & Diagnosis Services | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Earwigs [fact sheet] 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…
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Agriculture & Gardens, Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Pesticide Safety Education | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Plum Curculio [fact sheet] The plum curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar) is the most serious insect pest of apples and among the most destructive insect pests of peaches. It also…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Pesticide Safety Education | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Identifying Common Sweet Corn Caterpillars [fact sheet] 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…
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Agriculture & Gardens, Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) | vegetable crops | Fact Sheet | |
| Identifying Moths in Traps for Sweet Corn Pests [fact sheet] We recommend control sprays and treatment intervals based on the number of pest moths collected in pheromone traps. Because large changes in pest…
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Agriculture & Gardens, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Fruit & Vegetable Crops | vegetable crops | Fact Sheet | |
| New Hampshire IPM Newsletter The New Hampshire IPM Newsletter has been published by Alan Eaton, UNH Extension Entomologist, who retired in December. (For NH IPM Newsletter posts…
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Agriculture & Gardens, Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Setting up Traps to Monitor Sweet Corn Insects in New Hampshire [fact sheet] Corn Earworm Traps
When
Begin monitoring for corn earworm in late June or early July. You want to have the trap up and running before any of…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Peach Tree Borers in New Hampshire [fact sheet] 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…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| Managing Voles in New Hampshire Orchards and Highbush Blueberries [fact sheet] Two species of small rodents regularly damage orchard trees and blueberries in New Hampshire. Orchardists frequently call them mice, but they are…
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Agriculture & Gardens, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Yard & Garden | Agriculture & Gardens | ||
| NH Vegetable & Fruit Growers' Discussion Listserv Listservs are a way to exchange information quickly with other growers. We have set up such a list to promote discussion about all issues and topics…
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Agriculture & Gardens, Fruit & Vegetable Crops | Berry Crops, vegetable crops | ||
| Research Report: Effects of Early Season Heating, Low Tunnels and Harvest Time Ginger Yields in NH, 2017 U.S. consumers are likely most familiar with the golden cured rhizomes of mature ginger (Zingiber officinale). Growers in the northeastern U.S. have…
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Agriculture & Gardens, Fruit & Vegetable Crops | Research Report | ||
| Spotted Wing Drosophila IPM Weekly Scouting Reports
Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) is a vinegar gnat from China and Japan. It attacks ripening and ripe fruit of brambles (raspberry &…
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Fruit & Vegetable Crops, Agriculture & Gardens, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) | Agriculture & Gardens |
