Regional Update: Coastal Plains:
Bob Filbrun, Edgecombe County Horticulture, Apiculture, Local Foods Initiative & Forestry
Green Thumbs on Wheels

Regional Update: Piedmont
David Goforth
Cabarrus County, Horticulture

Regional Update: Mountain/Foothills
Cliff Ruth, Commercial Horticulture, Henderson & Transylvania Counties
Weed Scouting Class

Featured Speaker:
Hannah Burrack
Assistant Professor of Entomology & Extension Specialist, Tobacco and Small Fruits

Show Stopper Plants
Winter Series Camellias
John Vining, Polk County

Entomology
David Stephan
NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic
Insect identification specialist
40 years of experience

 Special focus on houseplant pests
 Broad mite (Polyphagotarsonemus latus) and cyclamen mite (Phytonemus pallidus)
 Spider mites (Tetranychus sp.)
 Aphids (Family Aphididae), including the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae)
 Greenhouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum)
 Brown soft scale (Coccus hesperidum)
 Hemispherical scale (Saissetia coffeae)
 Citrus mealybug (Planococcus citri)
 Longtailed mealybug (Pseudococcus longispinus)
 Western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis)
 Darkwinged fungus gnat (Bradysia sp.)
 Images submitted by our audience
 Chrysalis of viceroy or red-spotted purple
 Noctuid moth caterpillar on Solidago inflorescence
 Sulfur butterfly (Colias sp.)
 Pyralid moth caterpillar on Monarda leaf

Current Issues in Plant Pathology
Mike Munster
Plant Disease & Insect Clinic
Plant pathologist, diagnostician
commercial ornamentals
(nurseries & greenhouses)

 Viruses on woody plants
 Cucumber mosaic virus on dwarf nandina
 Rose mosaic
 Rose rosette
 Infectious variegation of camellia (Camellia yellow mottle virus)
 Fig mosaic virus(es)?
 Not in North Carolina: Plum pox virus
 Unsolved mysteries
 Galls on Forsythia
 Dead branch tips on Cryptome

Regional Update: Coastal Plains:
Anne Edward
Carteret County

Regional Update: Piedmont
Donna Teasley
Burk County

Regional Update: Mountain/Foothills:
Mark Blevins
Gaston County

Featured Speaker:
Peter Hertl
Research Assistant, Entomology
Organic Management of Vertebrate Pests in the Landscape

Show Stopper Plants
Venus Sweetshrub
Mark Blevins
Gaston County

Current Issues in Entomology
David Stephan
Plant Disease & Insect Clinic
Insect identification specialist

 Horsehair worms, a.k.a. Gordian worms, Phylum Nematomorpha
 Carpenterworms, including the little carpenterworm (Prionoxystus macmurtrei)
 Cankerworms, including the fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria)
 Caterpillar hunters (beetles)
 Calostoma scrutator
 Calostoma wilcoxi
 Holly pit scale (Asterodiaspis puteanum)
 Sooty mold on American holly
 Juniper webworm (Dichomeris marginella)

Current Issues in Plant Pathology
Mike Munster
Plant Disease & Insect Clinic
Plant pathologist, diagnostician commercial ornamentals(nurseries and greenhouses)

 Special presentation by Shawn Butler on laurel wilt, recently confirmed in North Carolina
 Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora)
 Shot-hole in Prunus
 Bacterial leaf spot (Xanthomonas)
 Cherry leaf spot (Blumeriella jaapii – fungus)
 Peach leaf curl (Taphrina deformans)
 Abiotic leaf spot (possibly Mg deficiency) on pepper transplants
 Bacterial leaf spot of pepper and tomato (Xanthomonas spp.)
 Comment on news of downy mildew on squash transplants at a Charleston, SC “big box” store

Regional Update: Coastal Plains:
Charlotte Glen, Pender

Regional Update: Piedmont
Aimee Rankin
Anson County

Regional Update: Mountain/Foothill
Diane Turner
Henderson County

Beneficial Insects &
Organic Pest Management

Featured Speaker:
David Or
Associate Professor, Entomology, Biological Control of Field Crops

Show Stopper Plants
Kousa Dogwood
Mark Blevins, Gaston County

Current Issues in Entomology
David Stephan
Plant Disease & Insect Clinic
Insect identification specialist

 Eyed Click Beetle or Eyed Elater, Alaus oculatus
 Robber Fly, family Asilidae, Laphria sp.
 Giant Water Bug, family Belostomatidae, Lethocerus sp.
 Diaspidid Scale, Abgrallaspis sp., on Oakleaf Hydrangea
 Darkwinged Fungus Gnat, Bradysia picea (Rubsaamen)
 Longlegged Fly, family Dolichopodi-dae, Condylostylus sp.
 Elderberry Borer, Desmocerus palliatus (Forster)
 Buthid Scorpion, Centruroides sp. prob. vitttatus (Say)
 Buthid Scorpion, Centruroides hentzi (Banks)
 Carolina Wolf Spider, Hogna carolinensis (Walckenaer)
 “Brown Prionus,” Orthosoma brunneum (Forster)
 European Hornet, Vespa crabro L., damage on Elaeagnus

Current Issues in Plant Pathology
Mike Munster
Plant Disease & Insect Clini
Plant pathologist, Diagnostician
commercial ornamentals
(nurseries and greenhouses)

 Dutch elm disease (caused by Ophiostoma ulmi and O. novo-ulmi)
 Slime molds
 “Dog-vomit slime mold”, Fuligo septica
 Physarum cinereum
 Stemonitis sp.
 The “peat mold”, Chromelosporium ollare (Peziza ostracoderma)
 Small pears on rootstock suckers
 Two tomato diseases
 Septoria leaf spot
 Buckeye rot (Phytopthora nicotianae)
 Fasciation
 Cucurbit diseases

Regional Update: Coastal Plains
Cyndi Lauderdale
Wilson County

Regional Update: Piedmont:
Mary Helen Ferguson
Randolph County

Regional Update
Mountain/Foothills:
John Vining, Polk County

Organic Disease Management
for garden vegetables
Featured Speaker:
Frank Louws
Professor and Extension Specialist
Plant Pathology

Show Stopper Plants
Climbing Hydrangea
John Vining, Polk County

Current Issues in Entomology
David Stephan
NC State Plant Disease & Insect Clinic

 Cypress Twig Gall Midge (Taxodiomyia cupressiananassa)
 A Rhopalid Bug (Niesthrea louisianica)
 Leaffooted Bug (Leptoglossus sp.)
 Zebra Swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus)
 Squash Beetle (Epilachna borealis)
 A Cerambycid Beetle (Physocnemum andreae)
 Katydid (Family Tettigoniidae)
 multiple bee and wasp species on the invasive porcelainberry (amur peppervine), Ampelopsis
brevipedunculata
 a word about spider/magic/hurricane Lilies (Lycoris spp.)

Current Issues in TurfLee Butler
Plant Disease & Insect Clinic
Turf pathologist, Diagnostician

 Fairy ring
 Spring dead spot

Current Issues in Plant Pathology
Mike Munster
Plant Disease & Insect Clinic
Plant pathologist, Diagnostician

 Imprellis damage on landscape trees, esp. conifers
 Leaf spot comparisons
 On English ivy
 anthracnose (Colletrichum trichellum)
 bacterial leaf spot (Xanthomonas sp.)
 On red maple
 anthracnose (Discula sp.)
 Phyllosticta leaf spot
 On bigleaf hydrangea
 old drought injury
 Cercospora leaf spot
 Leaf spots caused by cercosporoid fungi
 Cercospora on rose
 Pseudocercospora on ligustrum
 Passalora sequoiae on Leyland cypress and relatives
 Peony problems
 Discosia leaf spot
 Peony leaf blotch (a.k.a. Measles) caused by Cladosporium paeoniae
 Rhizoctonia stem rot

Regional Update: Piedmont
Mark Danielly, Alamance

Regional Update: Mountain/Foothills
Eric Caldwell, Transylvania

Featured Speaker: Joe Neal
Professor and Extension Specialist, Weeds
Organic Prevention and Management of Weeds in the Landscape

Show Stopper Plants

Japanese Plum Yew

Mark Blevins, Gaston County

Current Issues in Entomology

David Stephan

NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic

Insect identification specialist

40 years of experience in the Clinic

 The Orb Spiders, family Araneidae
 White Micrathena (Micrathena mitrata)
 Arrowhead Spider (Verrucosa arenata)
 Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia)
 Orb Spider (Neoscona hentzi)
 Marbled Orb Spider (Araneus marmoreus)
 Golden Silk Orb Spider (Nephila clavipes)
 Whitebanded Crab Spider (Misumenoides formosipes) TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR PLANTS, PESTS & PATHOGENS NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
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 Ant (Formica integra)
 Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) – actually a wasp!
 Glowworm (Phengodes sp.)
 Azalea Caterpillar (Datana major)
 Cambarid Crayfish (Cambarus latimanus)