Pests

Top 12 articles of 2024

Here are the top 12 articles that captured our readers' attention in 2024.

How plant architecture affects spray applications

Leaves, branches and stems of plants can block insecticide spray treatments, leaving growers with more pests and a need to spray more frequently. Learn how to account for plant architecture and overcome its effects.

Syngenta Professional Solutions announces two new active ingredients

Upon registration, plinazolin technology will provide a new insecticide active ingredient and mode of action, and tymirium technology will provide a new active ingredient for nematode and disease protection.

APHIS updates its Plants for Planting Manual

APHIS eases restrictions on importing citrus longhorned beetle and Asian longhorned beetle host plants from 21 European Union member countries and the United Kingdom.

EPA to host webinar on managing fungal diseases for ornamental plants

In this free webinar, participants will be introduced to common fungal diseases of ornamental plants and learn how to manage and prevent them.

Diamondback moth Plutella xylostella

This caterpillar is a dangerous defoliator.

Go systemic to stop red-headed flea beetles

New research shows how systemic insecticides protect container-grown nursery plants from this troublesome pest.

Questions with Nancy Rechcigl

Syngenta technical services manager explains how growers can achieve excellent control of chewing and sucking pests.

Clearwing borers

The caterpillar larvae of these insects bore into trees and shrubs, leading to decline and death.

HRI announces October tHRIve webinar focusing on Ambrosia beetle management tactics

Ambrosia beetles pose a significant threat to trees in ornamental nurseries, and these beetles tunnel into the heartwood of trees, where they cultivate and consume their fungal symbiont.

Yellow-Legged Hornet confirmed in Georgia for the first time

GDA is asking the public to report any sightings of the yellow-legged hornet, a non-native hornet species, that, if allowed to establish in Georgia, could potentially threaten honey production, native pollinators and agriculture.