The systems for Pennsylvania and NY will be distributed to researchers from each state in the respective agrotype. These researchers will review the system and determine what changes are required in order to make the system effective in their state. The design was a randomized complete block design with at least six replications. Two slow growing grass blends, 'OVN' and 'Companion,' were planted to investigate groundcover management for tarnished plant bug and two-spotted spider mites. Liberty' apples are susceptible to plum curculio.
Results suggest some flight activity to trees.
Fruit damage at harvest was extensive. The use of screened 'Liberty' trees was not particularly useful in monitoring plum curculio activity. We searched for reports from the Northeast Region containing the keywords IPM and Integrated Pest Management. Click here to visit the CRIS database pages. Fran VanKirk conducted our search of the CRIS database, and compiled search results for these pages.