Stonefruit
Insects At Harvest
Harvest time is the payoff for a job well done so far. However, after harvest peach trees are still attacked by the peachtree and lesser peachtree borers as well as white peach and San Jose scale.
Presenters
Bob Hochmuth is a multi-county Extension agent at the NFREC - Suwannee Valley working in the areas of small farms, commercial vegetables, and protected culture. His specialties include alternative crops, hydroponics, plastic mulch, and drip irrigation technology. Bob was raised on a commercial vegetable farm and has been an Extension agent since 1982.
Russ Mizell is a Professor of Entomology with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and is located at NFREC-Quincy. Dr. Mizell has research and extension responsibilities for deciduous fruits, pecan, and woody landscape plants with focus on the development of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems. He has authored or coauthored around 300 publications concerned with IPM programs including pest biology, biological and chemical control, host plant resistance, population dynamics and insect-plant-disease interactions.
Videos
- Stonefruit Introduction
- Dormant Season Insects
- Insect Traps
- Insects At Harvest
- Stonefruit Harvest
- Stonefruit Pruning
- Stonefruit Disease