(set up traps at silver tip)

Tree stage for McIntosh
green tip 4/14/03
half inch green 4/21/03
tight cluster 4/28/03
full pink 5/5/03
bloom 5/9/03
petal fall 5/18/03

– See leafminer eggs on underside of leaves 5/5/03
– See hatched leafminer eggs in Newport on 5/8/03 (and trees here are only at Pink)
-See adults still in trees on 5/19/03

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Apple blotch leafminer trap captures

The average number of adult leafminers caught per trap in each monitored block. The averages are cummulative.
Threshold = 8/trap by tight cluster or 21/trap by pink

 

orchard	4/16/03	4/21/03	4/28/03	5/5/03	5/12/03
East Farm	0/ 3 traps	10/ 3 traps	29/3 traps*		25/ 3 traps
Lamore	0/ 4 traps
Steere	0/ 3 traps	0/ 5 traps		18/ 5 traps
Jaswell		0/ 4 traps		10/ 4 traps
G. Smith		0/ 3 traps		12/ 4 traps
D. Smith		1/3 traps	7/ 3 traps		110/ 4 traps*
Phillips		0/ 2 traps		66/ 5 traps
B. Smith		0/ 4 traps		1/ 3 traps
Elwood				1/4 traps
Knight		0/ 4 traps

 

* Above threshold

Leafminer eggs. Started seeing eggs on 5/5/03
I do not have a true threshold, but if I find more than a couple per 25 clusters I get nervous.