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Tropical storm/Hurricane Ida brought some of the heaviest rainfall totals I have ever seen in my career in a few just an hours to much of CT, western MD, NJ, NY, and central and eastern PA.
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Annual bluegrass weevils (ABW) are still rearing their heads here and there in New Jersey. The spottiness of ABW is pretty normal in summer, especially this late in the season.
August is always a very important and tough month for golf course care in the Mid-Atlantic and North East regions. A few of the major issues include: tired grass from heat stress, seasonal employees leaving which creates a void and labor challenges and then there’s insect and disease pressure.
There was a spike of new ABW adults in the first week of August at Blacksburg Country Club, but this apparently did not lead to any significant larval populations.
All of the sites in our region were advanced into “Scout for Stage 6.” The next couple of days people called me to ask what they should be applying and when. My response at this time of the year is “it depends.”
In areas historically hit hard by annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) activity and damage in North Carolina, June and July have been fairly quiet this year. But this has varied depending on location.
With the warm weather we have had in the region, annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) stages and generations have continued to advance quickly.
After a quiet late June and early July, ABW larvae have shown up in full force in mid-to-late July 2021.
It has continued to be a relatively quiet annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) summer. But I received several calls earlier in the month from superintendents who suspected that they had some breakthroughs on tees and collars. It's critical at this time of the year to determine whether chlorosis or the early onset of a potential problem is due to insect feeding or something else.
As of July 1, 2021, we are seeing only moderate-to-low ABW densities and detecting mostly adults at Blacksburg Country Club, but reproduction is most certainly occurring.
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