Rhode Island Apple IPM

2002 - Current Pest Report - Apple Blotch leafminer
(set up traps at silver tip)

Tree stage for McIntosh
3/31/02 - green tip
4/13/02 - half inch green
4/15/02 - tight cluster
4/18/02 - pink
4/20/02 - bloom
5/6/02 - petal fall

 

5/24/02 - First see leafminer mines that have advanced to the tissue feeding stage.



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 4/15/02 4/20/02 4/22/02 4/25/02  
East Farm 19/ trap 64/ trap      
Phillips   0/ trap    
Jaswell   50/ trap    
B. Smith   0/ trap    
Steere   3/ trap    
Knight     1/ trap*  
Phantom     1/ trap*    
Elwood       0/ trap  

* Set up these traps very late: 4/18/02

Leafminer eggs. Started seeing eggs on 4/18/02.
*I do not have a true threshold, but if I find more than a couple per 25 clusters I get nervous.*

 

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