Albania Trip June 2001 Douglas G. Pfeiffer Professor Department of Entomology 205C Price Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061-0319 Ph. (540) 231-4183 Fax (540) 231-9131 dgpfeiff@vt.edu

Dates and Places visited:

• June 2 - Shkodra:
  • Pomegranate in bloom
  • Josef Tedeschini, horticulturists, and farm son in vineyard
  • Lake Scuteri
  • Peach problem, with farm couple
  • View of hills past fruit trees, and roadside view
  • Downtown Shkodra
  • Main mosque in Shkodra
  • Views from Rozaphat Castle above Shkodra: first, second, third, fourth (River Drin entering Lake Scuteri)
  • Vineyard at Koplik
  • Prune disease at Koplik
    
  
  
  
• June 3 - Lushnja:
  • Salinization in greenhouse soils, and in tomato greenhouse.
  • Liriomyza leafminers in tomato and cucumber.
  • Whiteflies important on tomatoes and cucumbers.
  • Glasshouse operators 1, 2.
  • Probable thrips injury to cucumber.
  • Greenhouse nematicide label.
  • Glasshouse tomatoes.
  • Tomato spray residues.
  • Glasshouse shots: 1, 2, 3, 4.
    
  
  
• June 4-5 - Vlore, Saranda:
  • Coast, moving toward Saranda, near Dhermi
  • at Saranda, coastal town, surf
  • Coast, south of Saranda
  • Citrus and olive groves moving inland from Saranda
  • Vineyard at Vlore
    
  
  
  
• June 7-8 - Korce:
  • Broad valley near Korce
  • Southern tip of Lake Ohrid, near Pogradec
  • Examining planting in Korce
    
  • Young apple orchard, view 1, 2.
  • Older orchard site (Pfeiffer and Tedeschini examining tree).
  • Apple rootstock nursery
  • Dysaphis devecta aphid leaf symptoms
    
  • Examining infestation of borer, Synanthedon myopaeformis (closer).
  • Plum pox virus leaf symptoms
  • Trying GPS (40° 54' 24" N,  20° 39' 18")
    
  
  
  
• Shamogjin
• Bob Hedlund and Josef Tedeschini visiting research blocks
• Bob Hedlund listening to Harallamb Pace.
• Zaim Veshi in vineyard at Shamogjin
  

• Visit to Vegetable and Potato Instititute (VPI):
• Director of Institute Xhevat Shima (R), with Josef Tedeschini (L).
• Director Shima, explaining programs and needs at VPI
• Greenhouses in need of repair
• More greenhouses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
  
• 
  
  

  IPM CRSP Home Page	IPM CRSP Albania Site	Virginia Fruit Homepage

  ---

  Douglas G. Pfeiffer