Topics in Subtropics

TEMAS EN ESTA EDICIÓN

• Prácticas de riego y manejo del agua en aguacates
• Asfixia radicular
• Actividad de celulasa en acolchados contra enfermedades de Phytophthora
• Alerta de plagas en guayaba
• Poniendo a las abejas a trabajar para identificar Sunblotch
• Resultados de ensayos de campo: investigación de insecticidas para trips de los cítricos
• Y un excelente taller en las próximas semanas

TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE 

• Irrigation Practices and Water Management in Avocados
• Asphyxiation
• Cellulase Activity in Mulches
• Guava Pest Alert
• Putting Bees to Work to ID Sunblotch
• Field Trial Results You Can Use: Citrus Thrips Insecticide Research
• And three great workshops coming up 

TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE 

• Highlights from Citrus IPM Entomology
• Avocado Flowering and Fruit Set
• Woodpeckers damage in Avocado
• Pest Control Districts Service Expanding
• Soil Biological Management for Enhanced Citrus Yield and Health
• New on Board, Matthew Fatino

TEMAS EN ESTA EDICIÓN

• Resumen sobre la producción de dátiles
• Directrices para el control del oídio de la uva
• Pudrición seca de la raíz de los cítricos: una plaga persistente causada por el Fusarium solani en California
• La detección de plagas es necesaria para el estudio de investigación
• Las hojas de aguacate han evolucionado en el control la humedad
• La guía del aguacate desde Australia
• La nueva publicación de UC ANR, Olive Production Manual for Oil (Manual de la producción de aceite de oliva) ¡ya está disponible!
• Presentación de Matthew Fatino

TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE

• The Role of Pollinators in Avocado Production 

• Is that a Fruit Fly?

 • Sivanto Labeled for Control of Pink Hibiscus Mealybug in Dates 

• Consperse Stink Bug 

• Insights on 2025 Honey Bee Losses 

• Upcoming Meetings

TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE

• Bifenthrin application added as an option to Fuller Rose Beetle Mitigation with Voluntary Sampling to Reduce Pesticide Application
• Selective Egg Staining: a New Tool to Support Breeding of Whitefly Resistant Crops
• Sunblotch! New Tools to Spot This SneakyAvocado Thief
• The Avocado Cone Roller Moth Is Here to Stay—Now What?
• Spring Subtropics Meetings Recap & Upcoming Meetings
o Citrus Meeting at Lindcove
o Avocado Field Day
o Microirrigation for Crop Production

This edition includes the following:

• Cherimoya Growers Handbook Available On-Line
• Learning From the Rain
• Optimizing Avocado Irrigation Management Practices Using Soil Moisture Sensing
• Pest Alert: Fig Wax Scale
• Ag Labor Management Resources
• Upcoming meetings
  • Avocado Irrigation workshops
  • Avocado Sunblotch Viroid (ASBVd)

• California inundated with invasive fruit flies
• Satellite-based irrigation tools to manage irrigation water more precisely in avocado groves
• Managing citrus mealybug – does ant control help?
• Phytoplasma Diseases of Palms in the USA
• Understanding fruit fly quarantines
• Cultivating Citrus Resilience to HLB in California
• Phenology and the Avocado
• The Annual California Avocado Society Meeting
• Pre-bloom foliar boron application on olive may improve yield

In this issue:

• IRCHLB?
• Pocket Gopher Management
• Phytophthora Diseases of California Citrus
• Airblast Sprayers
• Temperature Inversion Data Helps Guide Frost Responses
• Bodil Cass – New Subtropical Fruit IPM Specialist

In this issue:

• Avocado Production in the World:
  Observations of production and consumption
  growth
• USDA-APHIS Approves New Fuller Rose
  Beetle Mitigation – a Voluntary Option to
  Reduce Pesticide Applications
• DON’Ts – Suggestions for Citrus and
  Avocado Growers and Others
• California Efforts to Control Citrus HLB
• Dr. Hamutahl Cohen was appointed as an
  Entomology Advisor with UC Cooperative
  Extension in Ventura County.