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A Survey of Horticultural and Pest Management Practices of the Georgia Blueberry Industry [PDF]

Small Fruits Review, 2001
Abstract A producer survey was conducted in January 1999 to collect data on current production practices as well as present and future needs of the Georgia blueberry industry. A questionnaire requested anonymous information on various aspects of production, pest management, and pesticide use in addition to soliciting producer perceptions of the ...
Harald Scherm, D. Scott Nesmith, Dan L. Horton, Gerard Krewer   +3 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Biology, Ecology, and Management of Prevalent Thrips Species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) Impacting Blueberry Production in the Southeastern United States [PDF]

Insects
Blueberry is a high-value fruit crop in the United States, with Georgia and Florida serving as important early-season production regions. In these areas, several thrips species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), including Frankliniella tritici (Fitch ...
Rosan Adhikari, David G. Riley, Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan, Mark Abney, Cera Jones, Ashfaq A. Sial   +5 more
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Advances in Micro- and Macrobiological Strategies for Pest Control in Berry Production Systems: A Critical Review [PDF]

Plants
Berry crops such as strawberry Fragaria × ananassa (Weston), raspberry Rubus idaeus L., blackberry Rubus ulmifolius Schott, 1818, and blueberry Vaccinium myrtillus L. are economically and nutritionally valuable worldwide.
Oscar Giovanni Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, Humberto Javier López-Macías, Kolima Peña-Calzada, Gerardo Arias-Robledo, Guadalupe Oyoque-Salcedo, Isaac Zepeda-Jazo, Pedro Damián Loeza-Lara, Martin Heil, Omar Fabián Hernández-Zepeda   +8 more
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Entomopathogenic Nematodes for the Management of Plum Curculio in Highbush Blueberry

Biology, 2021
Conotrachelus nenuphar Herbst (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is a key pest of stone and pome fruits in the United States. Application of certain entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) species has shown efficacy in some crops when targeting the larval stage of C ...
Ana Luiza Sousa, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Robert Holdcraft, Vera Kyryczenko-Roth, Albrecht M. Koppenhöfer   +4 more
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Economic analysis of using exclusion netting for spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) management in organic blueberry production systems. [PDF]

Pest Manag Sci
Spotted‐wing drosophila (SWD) (Drosophila suzukii) is a devastating invasive species that affects soft and stone fruit crops. The SWD poses significant challenges to high‐value fruit industries, especially organic production.
Kwon EH, Pinto AF, Dai B, Gómez MI, Riggs DM, Loeb GM, Callahan CW, Lane DE, Wallis A.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

An emerging Platynota sp. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) infesting blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) in the central coast of Peru [PDF]

Frontiers in Insect Science
Blueberry cultivation has recently become a rapidly expanding export industry in Peru. With few to no official records of phytosanitary problems up to date.
Ricardo Velasquez, Ana Maria Leiva, Alejandra Gil-Ordóñez, Lady Susan Perez-Fuentes, Viviana Domínguez, Wilmer J. Cuellar   +5 more
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Spotted Wing Drosophila: Pest Management Recommendations for Southeastern Blueberries

EDIS, 2013
The spotted wing drosophila is a recently discovered invasive species native to parts of East Asia. It was first detected in the continental United States in California in 2008 and in Hillsborough County, Florida in 2009. Since then, the spotted wing drosophila has spread to over 28 counties in Florida.
Lindsy E. Iglesias, Oscar E. Liburd
openaire   +6 more sources

Modeling the seasonal activity and infestation risk of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in U-pick blueberry orchards in Indiana, USA. [PDF]

J Econ Entomol
Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) is an important pest affecting small fruit crops worldwide. Given its short generation time and multiple, overlapping generations annually, population monitoring remains a critical integrated pest management strategy to ...
Hong Z, Richmond DS, Long EY.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Farmer Mental Models of Biological Pest Control: Associations With Adoption of Conservation Practices in Blueberry and Cherry Orchards

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020
Conservation practices in agriculture—such as biological pest control, provision of pollinator habitat and cover cropping—may provide ecosystem services that are beneficial to both farmers and wildlife.
Chris J. Bardenhagen, Philip H. Howard, Steven A. Gray   +2 more
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Evaluation of Wild Flora Surrounding Blueberry Fields as Viable Hosts of Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura, 1931) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in Georgia

Insects, 2021
Drosophila suzukii, an economically important pest of small and thin-skinned fruits, has caused annual crop losses up to 20% in the state of Georgia’s multimillion-dollar blueberry industry. The known host range of D. suzukii is large, yet the breadth of
Joshua A. Grant, Ashfaq A. Sial
doaj   +2 more sources