Rhode Island Apple IPM

2000 - Current Pest Report - Apple Blotch leafminer

Tree stage for McIntosh

3/27/2000 - green tip
4/7/2000 - half inch green
4/14/2000 - tight cluster
5/1/2000 - pink
5/4/2000 - early bloom
5/8/2000 - early petal fall
5/10/2000 - petal fall

4/18/2000 - first leafminer egg found
4/25/2000 - Finding too many leafminer eggs in orchards where adult captures are below threshold!!!
5/11/2000 - see first sap feeding mines. Eggs probably began hatching a few days ago.
5/22/2000 - see first tissue feeding stage mines. Too late to treat with Provado; AgriMek should be applied today or tomorrow.



Apple blotch leafminer trap captures

The average number of adult leafminers caught per trap in each monitored block. The averages are cummulative.
* Threshold = 8/trap by tight cluster or 21/trap by pink*

orchard 4/13/00 4/16/2000 4/24/2000 5/1/2000 5/2000
Steere     0/2 traps 1/ 5 traps
D. Smith 12/ 4 traps 450/ 4 traps* 100/ 4 traps* 41/ 4 traps
Knight   8/ 5 traps 2/ 5 traps
Jaswell      
Smith 2/ 4 traps 14/ 4 traps 10/ 4 traps  
Phantom   6/ 6 traps 12/ 4 traps 15/ 5 traps
Hill 0/ 5 traps 16/ 5 traps 15/ 5 traps 8/ 5 traps
Barden   7/ 5 traps 12/ 5 traps  
Phillips     4/ 4 traps  
Dermksian      
Lamore     19/ 5 traps 4/ 5 traps
East Farm 56/ 4 traps* 53/ 4 traps*

* Above threshold

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