Get the latest updates in Arkansas pest management from your extension specialists.
Melonworm Invading Arkansas Pumpkins Early in 2024
Aaron Cato
Assistant Professor and Horticulture IPM Specialist
Melonworm have been observed in NW and SW Arkansas several weeks earlier than the last few years. See below for what that might mean for pumpkin operations across the region.
Can you identify this common pasture and roadside weed? Be the first to email Hannah Wright-Smith (hewright@uada.edu) and Bob Scott (bscott@uada.edu) with the correct answer to win a prize!
Horse fly abundance has increased dramatically within the last couple of weeks. In addition their status as a painful livestock blood feeder, they are implicated as potential mechanical vectors of equine infectious anemia in horses and anaplasmosis in cattle.
Assistant Professor and Horticulture IPM Specialist
Neopestalotiopsis is a new, aggressive disease in strawberry that is making headlines this year across the southeast. See below for information on how to help growers manage this disease.
It's hot, your plant doesn't seem to be holding up to the heat, and there are several tiny white to brown beads amongst a mat of white threads on or near the base of your plant. You may have southern blight. Click here to learn more.
Management Strategies for Yellow Tuft of Zoysiagrass
Wendell Hutchens
Assistant Professor of Turfgrass Science
Yellow tuft (Sclerophthora macrospora) is an understudied disease with few management recommendations. In this article, we discuss some potential chemical control options for the challenging disease based on our initial research efforts.
