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Kentucky Pest News Index to Articles: 2002

ALFALFA AND CLOVER

  • Alfalfa - Anthracnose - (969)
  • Aphanomyces root rot - 952, (952)
  • Fusarium crown rot - (949)
  • Leafhopper injury - (958)
  • Lepto leaf spot - 947, (969)
  • Sclerotinia crown and stem rot - (947), (948)
  • Spring black stem - 948, (955), (956)
  • Red clover - Sclerotinia crown rot - (947)
  • Alfalfa varieties for late-summer seeding - 962

CORN, POPCORN, AND SORGHUM

  • Corn - Anthracnose stalk rot - (969)
  • Bacterial stripe - (959), (960)
  • Brown spot - (961)
  • Chemical injury - (955)
  • Cold injury - (955)
  • Downy mildew - (965)
  • Drowning - (956)
  • Ear rots - 966
  • Frost injury - (953)
  • Gray leaf spot - 964
  • Herbicide injury - (951), (956), (957), (958)
  • Holcus spot - (958)
  • Stalk rots - 965
  • Stinkbug damage - (951), (952)
  • Wet feet - (952)
  • Zinc deficiency - (956)
  • BT corn and stalk rots - 969
  • BT corn may reduce fumonisin contamination - 942
  • Delayed planting and leaf diseases - 952
  • Heavy rainfall may enhance disease activity - 950
  • Seed treatments most important for early planting - 944

FLOWERING ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS, GREENHOUSE ORNAMENTALS, HOUSEPLANTS, AND GROUND COVERS

  • Begonia - Anthracnose - (952)
    • Botrytis blight - (952)
    • Powdery mildew - (952)
  • Canna - Xanthomonas blight - (958)
  • Carnation - Fusarium crown rot - (952)
  • Chrysanthemum -Growth regulator injury - (965)
    • Rhizoctonia root/stem rot - (958), (966)
  • Clematis - Fungal canker - (951)
  • Coleus - Pythium root rot - (946)
  • Daisy - Rhizoctonia root/stem rot - (958)
  • Daylily - Anthracnose - (961)
    • Leaf streak - (961)
    • Rhizoctonia crown rot - (949)
  • Geranium - Cercospora leaf spot - (954)
    • Iron toxicity - (949)
    • Low pH - (952)
  • Gypsophila - Rhizoctonia root/stem rot - (958)
  • Hollyhock - Rust - (956)
  • Hibiscus - Pseudomonas leaf spot - (958)
  • Impatiens - Alternaria leaf spot - (955)
    • Botrytis blight - (949)
    • Nitrogen deficiency - (949)
    • Pythium root rot - (952)
    • Rhizoctonia root rot - (956)
  • Iris - Heterosporium leaf spot - (948), (949), (956), (957), (964)
  • Ivy - Bacterial leaf spot - (955)
    • Phyllosticta leaf spot - (956)
  • Lily - Calcium deficiency - (951)
  • Lupine - Entomosporium leaf spot - (958)
  • Marigold - Rhizoctonia stem rot - (949)
  • Mayapple - Rust - (956)
  • Pansy - Black root rot - (946)
    • Botrytis blight - (971)
    • Cercospora leaf spot - (971)
    • Pythium root rot - (969), (971)
  • Peony - Botrytis blight - (956), (959), (960)
    • Bud blight - (952)
    • Cladosporium blotch - (952), (954)
  • Petunia - Black root rot - (957)
    • Botrytis blight - (952), (957)
    • Colletotrichum stem rot - (950), (951)
    • Pythium root rot - (957), (959), (960)
    • Pythophthora aerial blight - (952)
    • Rhizoctonia root rot - (956), (959), (960)
  • Photinia - Entomosporium leaf spot - (952), (955)
  • Poinsettia - Bacterial stem rot - (971)
    • Pythium root rot - (971)
  • Primrose - Septoria leaf spot - (958)
  • Rose - Black spot - (955), (956), (957), (958)
  • Rudbeckia - Powdery mildew - (966)
    • Pythium root rot - (959), (960)
  • Salvia - Bacterial leaf spot - (964)
  • Scabiosa - Pythium root rot - (959), (960)
  • Snapdragon - Pythium root rot - (946), (950)
  • Spathiphyllum - Cercospora leaf spot - (966)
  • Tradescantia - Cercospora leaf spot - (958)
  • Verbena - Botrytis blight - (953)
  • Vinca - Black root rot - (941)
    • Botrytis blight - (946), (955)
    • Phytophthora blight - (95

FORAGES

  • Breeding progress against sclerotinia crown and stem rot - 955
  • Recent weather favorable for sclerotinia on forage legumes - 946

FRUIT CROPS

  • Apple - Apple scab - 944
  • Blackberry - Anthracnose - 945
  • Blueberry - Botryosphaeria canker - (957)
    • Disease resistant varieties - 939
  • Cherry - Bacterial canker - (945)
    • Cytospora canker - (966)
    • Freeze injury - (950)
    • Phomopsis canker - (961)
  • Crabapple - Botryosphaeria canker - (941)
    • Powdery mildew - (961)
    • Scab - (955)
  • Grape - Anthracnose - (952), (957), (958), (959), (960), 962
  • Lemon - Scab - (941)
  • Nectarine - Scab - (961)
  • Peach - Bacterial canker - (945)
  • Pear - Anthracnose - (951)
  • Plum - Black knot - (956), 959, (959), (960)
  • Raspberry - Anthracnose - 945, (969)
    • Botrytis fruit rot - (961)
    • Cane blight management - 945
    • Phytophthora root rot - (956)
  • Strawberry - Disease resistant varieties - 939
    • Gray mold - (949)
    • Mycosphaerella leaf spot - (954), (955), (956), (964)
    • Powdery mildew - (943)
    • Rhizoctonia fruit rot - (956)
  • Begin tree fruit disease control measures now - 943
  • Favorable weather activates apple diseases - 949
  • New fungicides for small fruits - 950

FUNGICIDES AND PESTICIDES

  • Biological control products available for plant disease management - 970
  • EPA "clarifies" position on greenhouse pesticide use - 945
  • New uses for endorse fungicide under 2EE recommendations - 947
  • Spray adjuvants and foliar fungicides - 946

GRAINS (See also WHEAT)

  • Barley - Cold injury - (946)

LANDSCAPE TREES AND SHRUBS

  • Ash - Anthracnose - (951), (952), (956), (957)
  • Azalea - Iron deficiency - (947)
    • Lacebug injury - (947)
    • Leaf/flower gall - 952, (956)
  • Birch - Septoria leaf spot - (953), (966)
  • Boxwood - Volutella blight - (946), (948)
    • Rhizoctonia root rot - (941)
  • Catalpa - Verticillium wilt - (958)
  • Crabapple - Apple scab - (954), 955
    • Fireblight - (956)
    • Contorted filbert - Botyrosphaeria canker and dieback - (954)
  • Cypress - Phytophthora root rot - (951)
  • Dogwood - Drought stress - (965)
  • Elm - Dutch elm disease - (964)
  • Euonymus - Crown gall - (955)
    • Powdery mildew - (956)
  • Fringetree - Anthracnose - (959), (960)
  • Hawthorn - Cedar-quince rust - (957)
  • Honeylocust - Mimosa webworm - (965)
  • Honeysuckle - Botrytis blight - (958)
  • Holly - Black root rot - (943), (961), (969)
    • Spring leaf yellowing - (949)
  • Itea - Anthracnose - (959)
  • Leyland Cypress - Diseases - 956
  • Linden - Nectria canker - (965)
  • Magnolia - Verticillium wilt - (964)
  • Maple - Anthracnose - (952), (958)
    • Botyrosphaeria canker - (959), (960)
    • Cold injury - (948)
    • Petiole borer - (952)
    • Phyllosticta leaf spot - (952), (954), (956)
    • Verticillium wilt - (954), (955), (964)
  • Nandina - Bacterial leaf spot - (959), (960)
  • Oak - Bacterial leaf scorch - (969)
  • Photinia - Entomosporium leaf spot - (945), (946), (947)
  • Pine - Dothistroma needle blight - (943)
    • Juglone toxicity "walnut wilt" - (947)
    • Lophdermium needle cast - (956)
    • Needle rust - (949), (950)
    • Ozone damage - (956), (959), (960)
    • Pine wilt - (945)
    • Tip blight - (948), (950), (951)
    • Tip moth - (948)
  • Planetree - Bacterial leaf scorch - (969)
  • Quince - Cedar-quince rust - (958)
  • Redbud - Anthracnose - (954), (955)
    • Botyrosphaeria canker - 966
    • Cercosporella leaf spot - (966)
  • Rhododendron - Botyrosphaeria canker and dieback - (954)
  • Serviceberry - Fireblight - (955)
  • Spruce - Rhizosphaera needle cast - (947)
  • Sumac - Amphiporthe canker - (957)
  • Sweetgum - Botyrosphaeria canker - (959), (960)
  • Walnut - Anthracnose - (955)
  • Willow - Cytospora canker - (955)
  • Woody plants - Bacterial leaf scorch -
    • More hosts - 966
    • Water to prolong life - 955
    • Botryosphaeria canker - 943
    • Canker diseases - 969
    • Mistletoe, a parasite of hardwood trees - 971
    • Pines turning brown - 939
    • Sanitizing yard and garden tools - 942
    • Shade tree anthracnose - 951
    • Spring landscape diseases - 948
    • Sudden oak death quarantine - 941
    • What's wrong with my tree? - 954
  • Yellowwood - Botryosphaeria canker - (958)

LAWN AND TURF

  • Bentgrass - Anthracnose - (959), (959), (964)
  • Bermudagrass - Bipolaris leaf spot - (951)
    • Rhizoctonia large patch - 951, (951)
    • Spring dead spot - 957
  • Bluegrass - Drechslera-melting out - (947)
    • Frost injury - (947)
    • Localized dry spot - (958)
    • Necrotic ringspot - (955), (956), (958)
    • Powdery mildew - (941), (947)
    • Summer patch - (965)
    • Yellow patch - (950)
  • Fescue - Brown patch - (964)
  • Orchardgrass - Brown stripe - (954)
  • Ryegrass - Brown patch - (951), (959), (960)
  • Tall fescue - Brown patch - (956), (957), (961)
  • Turf - Dollar spot - 939, 949, 954
    • Expected cancellation of fenamiphos should not affect turf disease control in Kentucky - 951
    • Fungicide resistant anthracnose - 970
    • New cases of DMI resistant dollar spot - 954
    • Rationale for selected chlorothalonil restrictions on turf - 963
    • Red thread - 956
    • Slime mold - (949)
    • Two new brown patch fungicides - 940
  • Zoysia - Large patch - 951, 966

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Ginseng - Alternaria blight - (955)

SOYBEAN

  • Brown spot - (959), (960), (966)
  • Charcoal rot - (964), (965), (966), (969), (971)
  • Downy mildew - (966)
  • Frogeye leaf spot - (964), (965), (966)
  • Fusarium stem/root rot - (958), (961), 964
  • Herbicide injury - (958)
  • Potassium deficiency - (966)
  • Purple seed stain - (971)
  • Pythium root rot - (966)
  • Rhizoctonia root rot - (959), (960), (961), (965), (966)
  • Southern blight - 959, (959), (960), (964)
  • Soybean cyst nematode - 941, 962, (964), (966)
  • Stem canker - (966)
  • Sudden death syndrome - 942, (966)
  • Thielaviopsis root rot - (966)
  • Foliar diseases caused by bacteria and fungi - 945
  • Pod and stem diseases caused by fungi - 947
  • Root and lower stem diseases - 943
  • Stem canker or sudden death syndrome? - 960
  • Virus diseases of soybean - 950

TOBACCO

  • Acid soil - (956)
  • Alkalinity problems - (956)
  • Angular leaf spot - (951), (952), (961)
  • Bacterial blackleg - (949), (951), (952), (954), (956)
  • Black root rot - (958), (959), (960)
  • Black shank - 955, (956), (957), 958, (958), (959), (960), (961), (964), (965), (966)
  • Bleach injury - (947)
  • Blue mold - (959), (960), (961), (964)
  • Brown spot - (965)
  • Chemical injury - (951), (953), (955), (957)
  • Cold injury - (947), (954)
  • Early flowering - (957)
  • Fertilizer burn - (956)
  • Frogeye leaf spot - (961), (964), (966), 969
  • Frost injury - (953), (955)
  • Fusarium root and basal stem rot - (958), (965)
  • Fusarium wilt - (956), (957), (959), (960), (964)
  • Herbicide injury - (956), (958)
  • High soluble salts - (950)
  • Leaf spotting diseases - 966
  • Lighting injury - (964), (965)
  • Manganese toxicity - (957), (958)
  • Mold - (971)
  • Nutritional problems - (959), (960)
  • Pythium root/stem rot - (948), (949), (950), (951), (952), (953), (955), (956), (957), (958), (959), (960)
  • Ragged leaf spot - (959), (960)
  • Rhizoctonia damping-off - (947)
  • Rhizoctonia root/stem rot - (950), (951), (955), (966)
  • Sclerotinia collar rot - (950)
  • Slime mold - (949)
  • Soreshin - (956), (957), (958), (959), (960), (961), (964), (965)
  • Storage molds - (969)
  • Target spot - (949), (950), (951), (952), (953), (954), (956), (957), (959), (960), (965)
  • Tomato spotted wilt virus - (956), (957), (958), (959), (960), (961), (964)
  • Transplant shock - (950), (955), (958)
  • Wet feet - (949)
  • Chemical disease control in transplant production systems - 2002 crop - 943
  • Disease control in the tobacco field - 2002 season - 948
  • Pre-plant soil fumigants - 947
  • Root problems decrease tolerance to drought - 971
  • Root problems following terramaster treatments - 951
    • Soil applications of mefenoxam-containing fungicides for disease control in burley and dark tobacco fields - 2002 season - 947
  • Terramaster 4EC fungicide labeled for tobacco float-beds - 939
  • Transplant disease activity is increasing which could lead to field problems - 950

VEGETABLES

  • Bean - Anthracnose - (961), (964)
    • Rhizoctonia root/stem rot - (958)
  • Broccoli - Pythium root rot - (951)
  • Cabbage - Bacterial soft rot - (956)
    • Rhizoctonia damping off - (941)
    • Wire stem - (965)
  • Cantaloupe - Angular leaf spot - (956), (957), (958)
    • Bacterial wilt - (959), (960)
    • Cercospora leaf spot - (952)
    • Pythium root rot - (954)
    • Watermelon mosaic virus 2 - (965)
  • Cauliflower - Rhizoctonia stem rot - (953)
  • Cucumber - Angular leaf spot - (958)
    • Anthracnose - (958), (966)
    • Bacterial wilt - (956), (957)
    • Phytophthora fruit rot - (969)
  • Cucurbits - Yellow vine decline - 964
  • Lettuce - Pythium root rot - (948)
  • Pea - Bacterial blight - (957)
    • Rhizoctonia stem rot - (950)
  • Pepper - Bacterial spot - (956), (957), (958), (961)
    • Blossom end rot - (961)
    • Botrytis blight - (946)
    • Frost injury - (956)
    • Fusarium stem rot - (965)
    • Manganese toxicity - (965)
    • Pepper mild mottle virus - (965)
    • Potash deficiency - (954)
    • Pythium root rot - (945), (957), (961)
    • Rhizoctonia root rot - (954), (956), (961), (965)
    • Southern blight - (958), (961)
  • Potato - Drowning - (956)
    • Fusarium dry rot - (950)
  • Pumpkin - Anthracnose - (969)
    • Gummy stem blight - (966)
    • Microdochium blight - (969)
    • Potyvirus complex - (966)
    • Squash vine borer - (966)
    • Vine borer - (964), (965)
    • Yellow vine decline - (964), (966)
  • Rhubarb - Bacterial crown rot - (958)
  • Squash - Cucumber mosaic virus - (965)
    • Fusarium root and crown rot - (961)
    • Watermelon mosaic virus 2 - (965)
  • Sweet corn - Magnesium deficiency - (956)
  • Tomato - Alternaria canker - (957)
    • Bacterial canker - (957), (958), (959), (960), (961)
    • Bacterial spot/speck - (954), (955), (958), (959), (960), (961)
    • Blossom end rot - (957), (958)
    • Buckeye rot - (958)
    • Catfacing - (957)
    • Early blight - (956), (966)
    • Fusarium root rot - (959), (960)
    • Fusarium wilt - (961), (964)
    • Leaf burn - (946)
    • Magnesium deficiency - (946)
    • Maganese toxicity - (951)
    • Pythium root rot - (945), (946), (956), (958), (959), (960)
    • Pseudomonas blight - (956)
    • Rhizoctonia stem rot - (957)
    • Root knob nematode - (961), (964), (969)
    • Sclerotinia stem rot - (956)
    • Septoria leaf spot - (957), (958), (959), (960), (964)
    • Southern blight - (961)
    • Tobacco mosaic virus - (965)
    • Tomato mosaic virus - (965)
    • Tomato spotted wilt virus - (958), (959), (960)
    • Wet feet - (956)
    • Yellow shoulder - (964)
  • Watermelon - Cercospora leaf spot - (965)
    • Fusarium root rot - (959), (960)
    • Phytophthora fruit rot - (964)
  • New fungicide, Cabrio, labeled on many vegetables - 968

WHEAT

  • Barley yellow dwarf virus - (952)
  • Cold injury - (952)
  • Downy mildew - (949)
  • Foliar fungicides facts - 949
  • Fusarium head blight - 954
  • Herbicide injury - (951), (952)
  • Low wheat seed germination problems rather widespread - 964
  • Stripe rust - 948
  • Take all - (953)
  • Wheat disease update - 950
  • Wheat fungicide status for 2002 - 944
  • Wheat spindle mosaic virus - (947)

ENTOMOLOGY

GARDEN & FIELD CROP PESTS

FRUIT

  • Codling moth 947, 969
  • European red mites 958
  • Grape berry moth 952
  • Grape flea beetle 946
  • Grape root borer 961
  • Green June beetles 961
  • Hornworm (sphinx moth) caterpillar 967
  • Mites 958
  • Oriental fruit moth 969
  • Pandora sphinx caterpillar 967
  • Plum curculio 948
  • San Jose scale 946, 947, 964, 969
  • Spray rates 955
  • Tarnished plant bugs 948
  • Tobacco hornworm 967
  • Traps in apples 947
  • Woolly apple aphid 964

HOUSEHOLD PESTS

  • Ants 950, 953
  • Beetles 942
  • Black & yellow agriope spider 967
  • Black field ants 950
  • Black widow spider 964
  • Boxelder bug 939, 967
  • Brown recluse spider 964
  • Carpenter ants 950
  • Carpenter bees 948
  • Centipedes 944, 967
  • Cluster flies 941, 967
  • Crickets 944, 965
  • Earthworms 944
  • Eastern tent caterpillars - 941, 946
  • European red mites 958
  • Face flies 941
  • Flies - 968
  • Foreign grain beetle 962
  • Fungus beetle 962
  • Funnel web spider 967
  • Gnats 945
  • Horsehair worms 942
  • Hundred leggers 967
  • Japanese beetles 957
  • Lady beetles 941, 967
  • Leaf-footed (seed) bugs 941
  • Masked chafers 957
  • Mice 970
  • Midges 945
  • Millipedes 944
  • Mites 958
  • Mosquitoes 968, 967
  • Odorous house ants 953
  • Orb weaver spider 967
  • Paper wasps 941
  • Pest-proof you home 968
  • Scorpions 944
  • Slugs 944
  • Sow bugs 944
  • Spiders 964, 967
  • Springtails 945
  • Stink bugs 941
  • Termites 943, 946
  • White grubs 957
  • Winged ants 953
  • Yellowjackets 941

HUMAN, PUBLIC HEALTH PESTS

  • Bees (in tobacco) 961
  • Bumble bees (tobacco barns) 961
  • Crane flies 969
  • Fleas 969
  • Lone star ticks 966
  • Seed ticks 966
  • Stinging caterpillar 966
  • Ticks 942, 966
  • Wasps (in tobacco) 961

LAWN & TURF

  • Cicada killers 960
  • Clover mites 941
  • Earthworms 941
  • Eastern tent caterpillars 939
  • Green June beetles 967
  • Japanese beetles 957
  • Lawn mites 941
  • Masked chafers 957
  • Slugs 945
  • Velvet ants 964
  • White grubs 957, 964
  • Winter grain mites - 941

LIVESTOCK

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Earthworm pests 945
  • Grain mites 945
  • Red mites 945
  • Saddleback caterpillar 966
  • Stinging caterpillars 966

PASTURE

  • Fall armyworm 968
  • Green June beetle 968

SHADE TREES & ORNAMENTALS

  • Beetles 951
  • Bronze birch borers 952
  • Caterpillar hunters 951
  • Cicadas 943
  • Dogwood borers 952
  • Eastern tent caterpillars 943
  • Fall webworm 964
  • Flatheaded apple tree borer 952
  • Forest tent caterpillars 951
  • Giant caterpillars 964
  • Ground beetles 951
  • Holly leafminer 948
  • Honeylocust borers 952
  • Lesser peachtree borer 948
  • Lilac borer 948
  • May beetles 951
  • Orange-striped oakworms 964
  • Oystershell scale 948
  • Periodical cicadas 943, 951
  • Twig girdler 968

VEGETABLES

  • Beet armyworm 961, 963
  • Common asparagus beetle 948
  • Corn earworm 960, 965
  • Cucumber beetles 952
  • Melonworm 969
  • Mustang 1.5 - 941
  • Pepper maggots 964
  • Spotted cucumber beetle 952
  • Striped cucumber beetle 952
  • Squash bug 957
  • Squash pests 957
  • Tomato fruitworm 960
  • Tomato hornworm 960
  • Yellow striped armyworm 960

PESTICIDE INFORMATION

  • Acramite 50WS 947
  • Assail 70WP 946
  • Greenhouse pesticide use 945
  • Miticide - 947
  • Mustang 1.5 941
  • Pesticide labeling 945
  • Scam artists 947
  • Sluggo 948

NOTE: Trade names are used to simplify the information presented in this newsletter. No endorsement by the Cooperative Extension Service is intended, nor is criticism implied of similar products that are not named.

Lee Townsend
Extension Entomologist

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