cucurbit | Morning Ag Clips

October 27, 2020

NEW GUIDE AVAILABLE ...

User-friendly cucurbit downy mildew diagnosis guide

Accurate and early diagnosis is critical for timely disease management

August 22, 2017

Research Technician Wayne Pollard (NCSU) applies fungicide to a small plot in a pumpkin powdery mildew fungicide performance trial. (Courtesy of Gerald Holmes, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org)

PLANT HEALTH ...

Downy mildew could affect pumpkin, cucurbits

Downy mildew detected in a pumpkin field in St. Anne

July 26, 2017

Figure 1: Symptoms of cucurbit powdery mildew begin as white, powdery spots on the upper or lower leaf surface. (Photo: Emily Pfeufer, UK)

PLANT HEALTH ...

Cucurbit powdery mildew taking off

Reports of powdery mildew have increased rapidly in cucurbit crops in the past 2 weeks

July 1, 2017

DISEASE WATCH ...

Cucurbit downy mildew headed for NY

As storms pass through area, keep an eye out for cucurbit downy mildew

March 6, 2017

Figure 1. (A) Squash bug adult laying eggs, and (B) newly hatched eggs and early nymphs. (Photo credit: A.L. Buchanan)

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Cucurbits vulnerable to squash bugs

Squash bugs show up as isolated hotspots in certain fields