{"id":3214,"date":"2017-03-17T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2017-03-17T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T15:29:07","slug":"six-year-study-shows-hop-insect-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/2017\/03\/17\/six-year-study-shows-hop-insect-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-Year Study Shows Hop Insect Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Excited for the 2017 growing season? We are&#8230;and so are the bugs!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">We recently published our final <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/cropsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Hop-Variety-Trial.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Organic Hop Variety Trial Report<\/a> that includes 6 years of data on disease, weed, and insect pest populations found in our hopyard, as well as yield and quality performance of more than 20 hop varieties we evaluated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Our research showed seasonal patterns of the three major arthropod pests of hops found in the Northeast:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\"> Two-Spotted Spider Mites (TSSM), <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Potato Leafhoppers (PLH), and <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Hop Aphids (HA).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3215\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-by-year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3215 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-by-year-300x106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-by-year-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-by-year-768x271.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-by-year-1024x362.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mean number of Two-Spotted Spider Mites (TSSM), Potato Leafhoppers (LF), and Hop Aphids (HA) found per leaf by year, 2011-2016, Alburgh, VT. <i>Click on image to enlarge.<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">We also looked at beneficial insects, including the Spider-Mite Destroyer and its habits.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">We found that that the incidence of each pest varies widely by year, based on weather conditions. For example, TSSM populations responded to the warm and dry conditions we experienced in 2012 and 2016, while HA populations tended to favor cool and moist conditions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">PLH seemed to get a big boost out of a warm winter. Because they migrate from the south each season, warmer winters allow PLH to over-winter further north, shortening their journey to Vermont in the spring and early summer. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3218\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-seasonal-flow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3218\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-seasonal-flow-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-seasonal-flow-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-seasonal-flow-768x324.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/files\/2017\/03\/Arthropod-levels-seasonal-flow-1024x433.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Average number of Hop Aphids (HA), Potato Leafhoppers (PL), Spider-Mite Destroyers (SMD), and Two-Spotted Spider Mites found per leaf by date, 2011-2016, Alburgh, VT. <i>Click on image to enlarge.<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Our research also tracked pest levels throughout each growing season. While overall pest numbers varied greatly from year to year, the populations for each pest usually peaked at the same time of the year. PLH tended to peak in late June, TSSM in the hot and dry periods of late July and early August, and HA populations peaked right around harvest through September. Not surprisingly, the population of Spider-Mite Destroyers (SMD), beneficial arthropods that prey on TSSM, followed TSSM population levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Through our study, we found that some hop varieties seem more susceptible to certain hop insect pests. For example, Liberty, Perle, Teamaker, and Crystal seemed particularly sucseptible to TSSM. We observed that Mt. Hood, Liberty, Saaz, Newport, and Santiam were most susceptible to PLH damage. Conversely, Centennial was consistently among the most resistant to TSSM and PLH.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Further research results on pests and variety performance as well as valuable lessons we looked over the past six years in our hopyard can be found in our Organic Hop Variety Trial Final Report at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/cropsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Hop-Variety-Trial.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/cropsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Hop-Variety-Trial.pdf<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excited for the 2017 growing season? We are&#8230;and so are the bugs! We recently published our final Organic Hop Variety Trial Report that includes 6 years of data on disease, weed, and insect pest populations found in our hopyard, as well as yield and quality performance of more than 20 hop varieties we evaluated. Our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/2017\/03\/17\/six-year-study-shows-hop-insect-patterns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Six-Year Study Shows Hop Insect Patterns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36684,70495,36704,36709,36710,36696,579,160310,36712,36680],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hop","tag-hop-aphid","tag-hopyard","tag-pest-management","tag-pests","tag-potato-leafhoppers","tag-research","tag-spider-mite-destroyers","tag-two-spotted-spider-mites","tag-whats-hoppening","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"hoppenin","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/author\/hoppenin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}