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Tobacco Connection: Vol 2, Num. 3 (Summer 2025 Update)

As we get closer to harvest, get timely updates on labor, insect control, and curing in Tobacco Connection: Vol 2, Num. 3 (Summer 2025 Update).

Finger touching fuzzy green leaf bud with small green caterpillar and droppings

Steward Insecticide Registered in Tobacco

A new insecticide, Steward, has recently been registered in tobacco. Steward, with the active ingredient indoxacarb, is labeled for tobacco budworm, hornworms, and tobacco splitworm and has a unique…

Green caterpillar crawling along the edge of a fuzzy leaf

Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, July 10 2015

Budworm populations have surpassed threshold at all IPM sites to date, and all but one field has been treated. It is unlikely that tobacco budworms will require treatment post topping, but we will…

Collage: wasp on leaf; small insect with eggs on leaf; cluster of insect eggs; gray frog on leaf

Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, July 3 2015

This week we saw an increase in budworm pressure across nearly all sites. Given that some sites will be topping their plants in the coming two weeks, it is not warranted to make treatments solely for…

This hornworm was parasitized by braconid wasps. Although the white bodies look like “eggs”, they are actually tiny wasp cocoons. Photo: Demetri Tsiolkas

Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, June 26 2015

We are seeing different population densities of both hornworms and budworms across all sites as a result of chemical treatment, plant age/size, and regional differences. Typically you would see…

Tobacco plant with a single pale pink flower standing in a cultivated field

Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, June 19 2015

Plants at sites throughout the state are reaching the button stage where the plant begins to produce unopened flowers at the bud, and some plants are already in bloom. Treating for budworms is not…

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Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. August 22, 2014

It is week seventeen with our scouting reports, and not much change can be seen. There are still a few flea beetles, but well under threshold amounts. Hornworm pressure seems to be declining, and…

Young tobacco plant with large green leaves growing in sandy soil

Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. June 12, 2014

It is our seventh week of scouting at our IPM and grower standard fields. The tobacco plants are looking healthy, given substantial sunshine and rain over the past week. Budworms have started showing…