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So far, the weather this year has been all over the place. High temperatures in December, January and February had many worried that we would see record...
When the temperature hit 78°F in central New Hampshire on March 9, I thought we were in for a very early, spring weevil emergence. But the recent cooler...
We are hurtling toward the start of ABW season in central and western Pennsylvania. This has been a bizarre season so far, but we have come to expect...
The topsy-turvy temperatures of the past two weeks throughout the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic regions have gotten a lot of people talking - talking...
Which is the worst golf course insect pest in the Northeast? The answer to that may seem obvious to most people reading this WeevilTrak Blog: annual bluegrass...
With a relatively mild winter, smattered with a few cold streaks and the unseasonably warm trend we've experienced through March thus far, a lot of folks...
It may have felt like spring, or even summer this week in most locations of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, however the calendar tells us that...
I have received quite a few reports of ABW damage in the last few weeks, occurring on golf courses from northern New York to southern Virginia. The reports...
After a season talking about insecticides and insecticide resistance, we should not forget one thing: The most sensible and effective way to deal with...
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.
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