Over the past three weeks, in the Mid-Atlantic region, we have experienced a significant amount of evapotranspiration and very little rainfall. Most golf...

June brought a lot of rainfall for the Mid-Atlantic region. There were a number of golf courses in the Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia corridor...

You might remember that this past spring we were testing the standard adulticides and larvicides on four golf courses with pyrethroid resistance levels...

2015 has been a wacky year for weather and in turn, insects. The benign conditions have allowed insect pests, including Annual Bluegrass Weevil (ABW...

Currently, throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania and South New Jersey we are observing an increase in mature and callow adult activity on the turf surface...

Last week was the first big flush of first generation (summer) adults that we have observed in central Pennsylvania. You might be wondering, "I am just...

From initial crawl out of overwintering sites in late March, through the end of May and even into the early part of June, Annual Bluegrass Weevil (ABW...

As a decision-tool, WeevilTrak™ is one of many tools available to superintendents to control the annual bluegrass weevil (ABW). All of these tools have...

First, an update on my five annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) monitoring sites for last week-Tuesday, June 1 and Wednesday, June 2.

The warm weather of the past two weeks accelerated the development of the annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) in the Northeast even more than we had seen previously.

Things have certainly accelerated quickly in the Mid-Atlantic and in certain instances, some damage that we typically don't see this early from ABW, became...

Much of the Northeast is in a moderate drought. According to the National Weather Service, so far this spring precipitation is about 40 percent less than...

The greatest assets of WeevilTrak™ are the golf course superintendents that host the sites where data and observations are collected to provide information...

It has been a busy spring ABW season with 19 experiments on five golf courses. Meanwhile, all five populations I've been working with are ready for larvicide...

We have had a rapid change in the development of our annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) populations in Pennsylvania since my last blog entry (though it appears...

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind in the Mid-Atlantic and we've seen rapid change in Weeviltrak stage changes. In fact, we've seen sites that were...

The warm weather this past week pushed degree day accumulations and plant phenology very quickly in New England. We went from Forsythia "half green-half...

Much of New England has enjoyed a slow start to the spring, with temperatures remaining well below the five year average. But the weather pattern shifted...