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Use Glyphosate Properly to Protect Woody Plants
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/use-glyphosate-properly-protect-woody-plants
improperly or in too high of a dosage is causing a phenomenon known as split bark-- where, through the ... tree's uptake, the chemical is deteriorating the bark structure and destroying the winter hardiness of ... industry from bark cracking is conservatively estimated at $6.6 million a year. That's roughly 2.5 ...
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Forest Products Industry: Learn about EAB Quarantines, How to Stay in Business April 23 in Holmes Co.
die within three to five years. The pest belongs to a group of metallic wood-boring beetles. Adults ... beneath the bark of ash trees, and when they emerge as adults, leave D-shaped exit holes in the bark about ...
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A Mulch That Gives Nearly A Year's Worth of Weed Control
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/mulch-gives-nearly-years-worth-weed-control
would be a big deal to the industry." Case and Mathers analyzed Douglas fir and pine nugget mulches ... that herbicide-treated Douglas fir bark nuggets were extremely effective for weed control, regardless ... of whether oxyfluorfen (Goal), oryzalin (Surflan) or isoxaben (Gallery) were applied to the bark ...
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Ohio State University Recruits Citizens to Count Lady Beetles
June 23, 2009 WOOSTER, Ohio – The lady beetle, with its shiny, round red body and black spots, is ... lady beetle populations are rapidly declining throughout the Midwest, and an Ohio State University ... Buckeye Lady Beetle Blitz, Mary Gardiner is collecting data about native and introduced lady beetles. With ...
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Tilmon Lab Graduate Student, Adrian Pekarcik Receives NCR-SARE Grant!
https://aginsects.osu.edu/news/tilmon-lab-graduate-student-adrian-pekarcik-receives-ncr-sare-grant
control of the asiatic garden beetle in corn. More information on Adrian's project is discussed ... below: "Asiatic garden beetle is an early season pest of corn in specific regions of Indiana, ... as a biological control agent of Asiatic garden beetle in order to provide a sustainable, ...
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Ribes Trials to Evalute Resistance and Immunity to White Pine Blister Rust
Ribes varieties must be resistant to white pine blister rust, a devastating disease of white pine trees ... selections we chose are either labeled as showing immunity or show high resistance to the white pine blister ... for white pine blister rust based on the local growing conditions in Ohio. That means if they are ...
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Corn Rootworm Populations Decreasing in Ohio
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/corn-rootworm-populations-decreasing-ohio
January 8, 2002 COLUMBUS, Ohio- Populations of western corn rootworm beetles in Ohio soybean ... soybean fields have been decreasing every year since the surveys began in 1998. With these beetles, yield ... loss may occur when trap catches are at two beetles per trap per day or higher. Extension personnel ...
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Extension and News Articles
https://southcenters.osu.edu/soil-water-bioenergy/publications-presentations/extention-articles
Extension factsheets Hoorman, J., Aziz, I., Reeder, R.C. and K.R. Islam (2011) Tillage effects on ...
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OARDC Announces 2008 Grad Student Poster Winners
"Insect-host Phenological Synchrony: Foliar Terpenes and Free Amino Acids in Relation to European Pine Sawfly ... Beetle"; Parwinder Grewal, advisor. Judged by a panel of OARDC scientists, the competition recognizes ...
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A Formula For Higher Pest Resistance in Ornamental Trees
conducted by Herms and Ohio State plant pathologist Enrico Bonello on red pines reveals that fertilization ... stresses. In their experiments, fertilized red pines inoculated with S. sapinea showed larger cankers than ... non-fertilized trees that were also exposed to the pathogen. In addition, fertilized pines had higher nitrogen ...