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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…

Dark caterpillar on a leaf covered in clusters of white parasitic wasp cocoons

Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, August 21 2015

With harvesting well underway, we are now able to observe how insects distribute themselves on the remaining foliage in the final weeks. Hornworms and budworms have a preference for younger leaves…

Leaf underside densely covered with small red aphids and white shed skins

Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, July 31 2015

Similar to recent weeks, we are still in a bit of a midsummer lull for pest pressure. However, we still have weeks to go, and a lot can change in that time. Below are a few points of interest from…

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…

Rows of large green tobacco leaves along a dirt path

Tobacco Insect Scouting Report, September 5, 2014

We are at week nineteen of scouting, and harvesting is happening at all locations. The Piedmont site continued with harvesting this week and the Eastern 3 & 4 locations have completed harvesting this…

Dense field of mature tobacco plants with large green leaves

Tobacco Insect Scouting Report. August 29, 2014

We are at week eighteen of scouting. Two of our eastern sites are almost done with harvesting, while harvesting continues at our other locations. None of our grower plots have hornworms or flea…

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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…