Published - 30 May 2023 By Emily Crawford & Mark Hincksman IPDM focus on black spot (apple scab and pear scab) These two diseases affect flowers, fruit and foliage causing serious yields and fruit quality losses. They are most likely to occur in the wet seasons … Read More apple scab, black spot, blackspot, pear scab, scab Diseases
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 - 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
Published - 9 January 2020 By David Williams (Agriculture Victoria) Case Study Update: Yarra Valley – combining RIMPRO with MetEye and strategic release of predatory mites Grower name: David Finger Location: Yarra Junction, Victoria What are the main IPDM issues being focussed on? Main concerns are black spot and codling moth but mites, birds, heliothis, kangaroos … Read More black spot, case study or, codling moth, predatory mites, RIMPRO, Victoria, woolly aphid parasitoid, Yarra Valley Case Study Orchards, Vic
Published - 30 October 2019 By Kevin Dodds (NSW DPI) Do I have Primary Scab infection? ……and what does this mean for my Summer-Autumn spray program? Black spot otherwise known as apple and pear scab (caused by the fungal pathogens Venturia inequalis and V.pirina), survives through Winter as spore bodies mostly … Read More black spot, scab Diseases
No Black Spot Warning (Queensland only) 15th October 2019 Rain last night did not cause a black spot infection period. Rainfall was apparently very patchy across the Granite Belt but significant falls of 4-6 … Read More black spot, grower alert, warning Diseases, Home, QLD
Published - 12 October 2019 By Peter Nimmo (Queensland Dept Agriculture and Fisheries) Black Spot Warning 11 October 2019 Rain this morning Friday, 11 October, has triggered a black spot ascospore release in most orchards across the district. Apple leaves remained wet well into … Read More black spot Diseases
Published - 14 May 2019 By Scab (Black Spot) Management Scab can be an issue in apple and pear orchards. In the following two videos David Williams (Principal Research Scientist at Agriculture Victoria) discusses ground cover … Read More apple scab, black spot, ground cover management, pear scab, scab Diseases