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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

My Tomato Plants Are Wilting... And Then They Die!

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Tomato Wilting Symptoms (Photo by F.J Louws) Every summer the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic receives samples from clients who tell us t...
Friday, July 8, 2011

My Blueberries Look Funny...

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Written by Bill Cline In July, blueberries are ripening all across the state.   These excellent little berries can be grow...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Japanese Beetles Out in Full Force This Season

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Robber fly eating Japanese beetle (Photo D. Stephan)   Barbara Shew, our clinic director, said that she observed the cardinals in her ya...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

It Looks Like a Dog Threw Up in My Mulch: Slime Molds - Harmless but Ugly!

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Fuligo Septica in Mulch Photo by Donna Steinbach (Submitted to PDIC) Every year, we receive image samples depicting the “dog-vomit” sl...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Attack of the Killer Tomato (Spotted Wilt Virus)

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TSWV fruit symptoms Photo by F. J. Louws Lately, we have seen a lot of tomato samples with tomato spotted wilt  (TSWV) come through th...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Now That's Just Peachy!

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My favorite time to visit the local farmers market is during peach season.  To me, there is nothing tastier than slicing open a juicy peach ...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

First Slime Flux Sample of the Year Arrives in Clinic

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Slime flux on white oak (Photo by: Randy Cyr, Bugwood) The first slime flux sample of the season was sent to the clinic today, as a digi...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

My plants have a little sugar coating :) Powdery Mildew Spotted in the Landscape

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Powdery Mildew on Crape Myrtle (Photo: H.D. Shew) Powdery mildew has started to show up on many landscape plants. Powdery mildew is easi...