I. IDENTIFICATION AND BIOLOGY OF BLUEBERRY ARTHROPODS

A. Refer to Refer to Wisconsin list of Insects on Cranberry, and Ohio blueberry pests

B. DIRECT PESTS:

• Blueberry maggot

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Cranberry and cherry fruitworms

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Plum curculio

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Four Economic Larvae in Blueberries at Harvest Time NCSU (Ken Sorenson)

C. INDIRECT PESTS:

• Borers

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• terrapin scale

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• cicada

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• sharpnosed leafhopper

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Blueberry bud mite - NCSU (Ken Sorenson)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Miscellaneous species
 
• Blueberry aphids (several species - see PNW site))
• Blueberry leaf beetle (Pyrrhalta vaccinii)
• Blueberry leafminer (Gracillaria vacciniella)
• Blueberry stem gall wasp (Hemadas nubilipennis)
• Cutworms (various species)
• Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar)
• Leafrollers (redbanded leafroller, fruittree leafroller, and obliquebanded leafroller - see PNW site))
• Root weevils (strawberry root weevil, rough strawberry root weevil, black vine weevil - see PNW site))
• Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
• Scale insects (several species)
• Spanworms (at least three species)
• White grubs (about seven species of scarab beetles)

A. New England Small Fruit Pest Management Program

B. New Jersey Blueberry Pest Management Program

C. Blueberry maggot risk assessment in North Carolina

D. Mid-Western IPM practices, from Ohio State
 

A. Refer to Refer to handout on "Insects and Mites Associated with Small Fruits in the U.S."

See Jessica Metzger page on Cranberry IPM

B. DIRECT PESTS:

Cranberry Fruitworm (Acrobasis vaccinii) (Michigan factsheet)

 

Cranberry Weevil (Anthonomus musculus) (NCSU factsheet)

 

Brown Cranberry Spanworm (Ematurga amitaria)

 

Sparganothis fruitworm (Sparganothis sulfureana)  (Mating disruption)

C. INDIRECT PESTS:

Blackheaded Fireworm (Rhopobota unipunctana) (Canadian link)

- mating disruption, biological control, bog flooding.
 

Spotted Fireworm (Choristoneura parallela)

 

Cranberry Girdler (Chrysoteuchia topiaria)

 

Cranberry Tipworm (Dasyneura oxycoccana)

 

Cranberry Blossomworm (Eplgiaea apiata)

 

Cranberry Root Grub (Lichnanthe vulpina)

 

Cranberry White Grub (Phyllophaga anxia)

 

Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar)

 

Green Cranberry Spanworm (Itame sulphurea)

 

False Armyworm (Xylena nupera)

 

Southern Red Mite (Oligonychus ilicis)

A. Refer to copy of "Cranberry Insect Integrated Pest Management" from the Univ. of Massachusetts. See UMass Cranberry program

B. New Jersey Cranberry IPM Program
 

 
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