Pick Your Battles With The Pepper Weevil By Growing Produce Staff|February 28, 2011 The pepper weevil, a black beetle that is oval in shape with a long curved proboscis, is smaller […]Read More
The Best Pole and Bush Bean Varieties You’ll Want To Grow Now Posted by Carol Miller|September 1, 2026
Boxadon 360 SC Insecticide From UPL Gets Important Registration for Use on Key California Crops Posted by Growing Produce Staff|August 31, 2026
Destructive Stink Bug Found In Michigan By Growing Produce Staff|February 1, 2011 The Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) has confirmed the presence of brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), Halyomorpha halys […]
Product Spotlight: New Biological Insect Control From Arborjet By Growing Produce Staff|January 28, 2011 AzaSol from Arborjet is a new, water-soluble powdered azadirachtin product developed for biologically based insect control. It is […]
Light Brown Apple Moth Found In Oregon Posted by Paul Rusnak|January 24, 2011 The Oregon Department of Agriculture has confirmed a single detection of light brown apple moth, marking the first […]
Make All The Right Moves When Transporting Pesticides By Elena M. Toro|January 24, 2011 Pesticides are often classified as hazardous materials and their transport requires careful attention and management in order to […]
Mulch Repels Pests By David Eddy|January 3, 2011 As reported in American Vegetable Grower just over two years ago, Nunez had embarked on a three-year study […]
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Agricultural Research Service Action Plan By Growing Produce Staff|November 19, 2010 The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Halyomorpha halys) was introduced from Asia into the mid-Atlantic region […]
Setting Sights On Stink Bugs By Growing Produce Staff|October 28, 2010 USDA-Agriculture Research Service (ARS) Administrator Ed Knipling and other agency experts met with concerned representatives from the apple […]
Stink Bug Destroys Half Of Pennsylvania’s Peach Crop By Growing Produce Staff|October 11, 2010 Stink bugs have been a huge problem this season, and one grower in Pennsylvania lost $10,000 worth of […]
European Grapevine Moth Concern Prompts Fruit Removal By Growing Produce Staff|September 29, 2010 The California Department of Food and Agriculture is preparing to remove the fruit from backyard grapevines on several […]
Worry Over New Pest By Growing Produce Staff|September 28, 2010 If tomato growers in Florida don’t have enough to worry about, state and federal officials are concerned about […]
Managing Fruit Flies By Growing Produce Staff|September 9, 2010 The Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly), Ceratitis capitata, is one of the world’s most destructive fruit pests. It attacks […]
Melon Fruit Fly Quarantine Expected To Expand By Growing Produce Staff|August 31, 2010 Two more melon fruit flies have been discovered, which could mean lengthening the timeframe and boundaries of a […]
Pest Of The Month: Mediterranean Fruit Fly By Gene McAvoy|August 20, 2010 Identification During routine fruit fly monitoring in June, a trap containing Mediterranean fruit flies was collected in Palm […]
Serious Pest Found In California’s Kern County By Growing Produce Staff|August 18, 2010 Five melon fruit flies were found found south of Lamont, according to Kern County’s Department of Agriculture and […]
EPA Moves To Phase Out Temik By Growing Produce Staff|August 17, 2010 Bayer CropScience is cooperating with the EPA following the announcement to cancel uses of aldicarb, sold as Temik […]
Aphids With Attitude By Growing Produce Staff|August 12, 2010 Apathetic aphids — which become accustomed to ignoring genetically engineered chemical alarms in plants and alarms sent by […]
Managing Stink Bugs By Growing Produce Staff|August 6, 2010 The southern green stink bug attacks many important food crops, especially tomatoes. This pest, with a piercing/sucking mouthpart, […]
Using Bats For Insect Control By Ann-Marie Jeffries|August 1, 2010 Wouldn’t it be great if you could significantly reduce the codling moth population on your farm without even […]
Dow AgroSciences Insecticides Registered For European Grapevine Moth By Growing Produce Staff|July 20, 2010 Grape growers now have four insecticides for control of European grapevine moth (EGVM). Dow AgroSciences received registration from […]
