Published - 1 September 2021 By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria) and Elizabeth Mace (GV Crop Protection) Prepare hives and help hoverflies If we get a wet spring we may find the bees struggle to get active this year. It’s time to have hives prepared and help … Read More bees, hover flies, hover fly Beneficials, Home
Published - 26 August 2021 By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria) Start planning for mealybug Are you prepared for mealybug this season? Has your control strategy been working, or are there important gaps to address? When planning your next steps … Read More mealy bug, Mealybug Home, Pests
Published - 17 June 2021 By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria) Establishing native vegetation in inter-rows Establishing native vegetation in orchard inter-rows to create habitat for beneficials is not an easy undertaking. As part of a PIPS 3 research project, (AP19002 Stengthening … Read More beneficial insects, inter row planting, native vegetation Home
Published - 25 May 2021 By David Williams (Agriculture Victoria) IPDM Manual for Apples and Pears Summary: The Integrated Pest Disease and Weed Management manual for Australian Apple and Pears – is a revised 2nd edition of the IPM manual well known to many … Read More apple and pear IPDM manual, IPDM manual, IPM manual IPDM Manual, Useful Tools
Published - 10 April 2021 By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria) and Kevin Dodds (NSW DPI) Post harvest Scab control Sweeping and mulching leaves, and the application of foliar Nitrogen, hastens leaf decomposition and reduces the number of Scab spores that survive into the following … Read More apple scab, black spot, pear scab, scab Diseases
Published - 18 March 2021 By Emily Crawford (Agriculture Victoria) Earwig control of WAA Orchardist Ian Cathels participated in an APAL Future Orchard monitoring trial looking at earwig control of woolly apple aphid (WAA). “We observed earwigs numbers were very … Read More earwigs, woolly aphid, woolly apple aphid Beneficials
Published - 18 February 2021 By Raelene Kwong (Agriculture Victoria) Soil testing to help measure native vegetation success Agriculture Victoria researchers in the IPDM Cultural and Biological control project are collecting soil samples from trial plots at the Tatura Smart Farm in Victoria … Read More beneficials, native vegetation Beneficials, Home
Published - 11 February 2021 By Dan Papacek (Bugs for Bugs) Fruit fly management A whole ‘system’ approach is required for fruit fly management. By this we mean: Protein bait sprays Monitoring Male annihilation Sanitation The Manage Queensland Fruit fly brochure from Hort Innovation … Read More bait spray, baiting, male annihilation, MAT, protein bait sprays, QFF, Queensland fruit fly Home, Pests
Published - 2 February 2021 By PIPS3: Strengthening Cultural and Biological Management of Pests and Diseases Hort Innovation has kicked off the third Apple and Pear industry Productivity, Irrigation, Pests and Soils (PIPS3) program. The program covers apple and pear orchards … Read More IPDM project, PIPS 3 Home
Published - 28 January 2021 By Russell Fox (I.K. Caldwell) and Enver Sabri (I.K.Caldwell) Summer Spot – a few cases being seen in Vic A few cases of Summer Spot are being seen in the Goulburn Valley at the moment. Summer Spot is a secondary infection of Black Spot … Read More apple scab, black spot, pear scab, summer spot Diseases, Vic
