Month: June 2025

The time has come to hang apple maggot fly (AMF) traps in Vermont orchards. These are some of the easiest pests to manage using an IPM strategy, so there’s really no excuse. The idea is to assess the population in the orchard before applying prophylactic sprays. By using red sticky traps, you can time treatments…

This will be a fairly brief newsletter today as I am away all week at a conference in Chicago. Feel free to e-mail or text me if you have specific questions, I will keep up the best that I can. -TB We are entering into what I consider early summer insect management season. The main…

Passing this on from Bethany again. -TB Hi there again folks, I’m writing in to you on the eve of the most important disease prevention period of our grape systems! Over the past two weeks we have had several Phomopsis and black rot infection events according to our NEWA models. As we enter pre-bloom it…