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As of March 25, 2022, in Blacksburg, Virginia, we’ve only accumulated about 39 GDD since March 1. We’re a little behind normal, but there are definite...
We’re back at it in upstate New York and have started scouting for ABW near Lake Ontario and in New York’s southern tier.
The turf is beginning to wake up and annual bluegrass weevil activity will be close behind.
Another weevil season is upon us and while we have had some crazy cold weather in the last week or two, adult annual bluegrass weevils are active.
We are gearing up to start a new monitoring season for ABW here in Virginia.
The growing degree day monitors have been placed at Pine Brook Golf Course (Manalapan, New Jersey) and Preakness Hills Country Club (Wayne, New Jersey...
Adult annual bluegrass weevil activity appears to be starting, but, as we know, March weather can change in a heartbeat, and as of Saturday, March 12...
We have sampled for ABW twice at the Blacksburg Country Club (superintendent Bill Keene), and not found any ABW adults, despite some recent warm sunny...
This is the time of the year to be patient with a lot of things including annual bluegrass weevil control measures. Even if you scout and find a few adults...
As we have seen dwindling adult numbers as well as no sign of new larvae as we head into late September, we will stop our WeevilTrak monitoring at this...
Things should be really slowing down with annual bluegrass weevils now. But it looks like there is still some scattered ABW activity in New Jersey right now.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
With the warm weather we have had in the region, annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) stages and generations have continued to advance quickly.
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