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Featured Speaker:

Larry Grand

Mushrooms and other macrofungi

Dr. Grand is part of a multidisciplinary team assessing fungal biodiversity in North Carolina state parks and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

2012 Show Stopper Plants

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

• Demystifying Scientific Names
• Insects and other arthropods
• Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
• Angular/Broad winged katydid (Microcentrum sp.)
• Vegetable weevil (Listroderes difficilis)
• Arthropod pests on boxwood
• Boxwood mite, Eurytetranychus buxi
• Boxwood psyllid, Cacopsylla buxi
• Boxwood lLeafminer, Monarthropalpus flavus
• Boxwood scale insects
• Cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi (Maskell)
• Wax scales, Ceroplastes sp.
• Lace bugs
• Azalea lace bug (Stephanitis pyrioides)
• Hawthorn lace bug (Corythucha cydoniae)
• Green Fruitworms and Climbing Cutworms

Current Issues in Plant Pathology
Mike Munster

Plant Disease & Insect Clinic
Plant pathologist, diagnostician
commercial ornamentals
(nurseries & greenhouses)

• A Box Blight Primer
• Update on Emerald Ash Borer and Laurel Wilt
• Botrytis blight on pansies in the landscape
• White mold (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) on collards, snapdragon, and more
• Two camellia diseases
• Camellia petal blight (Ciborinia camelliae)
• Infectious variegation of camellia (Camellia yellow mottle virus?)

Regional Update Coastal Plains:

Cypress Weevil,

Eudociminus mannerheimii,

Danny Lauderdale

Regional Update Piedmont:

Blossom End Rot in Container Gardens

Mary Helen Ferguson

Featured Speaker:

Dr. Brian Jackson

Plant Identification

2012 Show Stopper Plants

Mark Blevins

Current Issues in Entomology

David Stephan

Plant Disease & Insect Clinic

Kudzu bugs, Termites, Carpenter Ants, Blister Beetle, Linyphiidae Spider, Luna Moth, and more

 Bean Plataspid/Kudzu Bug (Megacopta cribraria)
 Eastern Subterranean Termite (Reticuliter-mes flavipes)
 Ants vs. Termites
 Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.), with emphasis on the black carpenter ant
 “Bowl and Doily” Spider (Frontinella communis)
 A blister beetle (Meloidae, Lytta sp.)
 Luna Moth (Actias luna)

Current Issues in Plant Pathology

Mike Munster

Plant Disease & Insect Clinic

Plant pathologist, diagnostician commercial ornamentals

(nurseries and greenhouses)

• Flowerpot parasol mushroom (Leucocoprinus birnbaumii)
• Abiotic problems
• Uneven leaf-out of red maples
• Frost injury
• Sunscald
• Hydrophobic soil and high soluble salts
• Hollyhock rust
• Septoria leaf spot on Rudbeckia
• Leaf spots on Japanese maple
• Rose downy mildew
• Powdery mildews on various hosts
• Watch for in May & June
• In the vegetable garden (Tomato spotted wilt virus, Septoria leaf spot (tomato), Southern blight*, Southern bacterial wilt*, root-knot*) *=wilt diseases
• In trees, shrubs, flowers (Rose rosette, quince rust on ornamental pear, oak leaf blister)
• Keeping an eye on late blight (usablight.org)

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Featured Speaker:

Dr. Carl Crozier

Urban Soils

2012 Show Stopper Plants

Current Issues in Entomology

David Stephan

Plant Disease & Insect Clinic

Insect identification specialist

40 years of experience in the clinic

• Eastern Hercules beetle (Dynastes tityus)
• Saltmarsh caterpillar (Estigmene acrea)
• Orchard spider (Leucage venusta)
• Scarab Beetle (Polyphylla occidentalis)
• An eriophyid mite (Eriophyes caulis) causing an erineum gall on the petiole of black walnut
• Tobacco budworm (Heliothis virescens) resting on unidentified stink bug eggs
• Sawflies, with emphasis on the redheaded pine sawfly (Neodiprion lecontei)
• Cottonwood leaf beetle (Chrysomela scripta)
• Cicada killer (Sphecius speciosus)

Current Issues in Plant Pathology

Mike Munster

Plant Disease & Insect Clinic

Plant pathologist, Diagnostician

commercial ornamentals

(nurseries and greenhouses)

• Crown and root problems of liriope, including Fusarium and Phytophthora
• Downy mildew of impatiens (Plasmopara obducens)
• Phytophthora aerial blight of Madagascar periwinkle (annual vinca) and petunia
• Some diseases of grape
• downy mildew (Plasmopara viticola)
• powdery mildew (Erysiphe (Uncinula) necator)
• black rot (Guignardia bidwellii)
• Pierce’s disease (Xylella fastidiosa)
• herbicide injury

Regional Update

Coastal Plains: Tom Glasgow

Regional Update

Piedmont:

Paul McKenzie

Featured Speaker:

Joe Neal

Weed ID

2012 Show Stopper Plants

Current Issues in Entomology

David Stephan

NC State Plant Disease & Insect Clinic

• Rose rosette
• Armillaria root rot on shrubs and trees
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Images
• Sooty mold
• Cherry leaf spot
• Watermelon fruit blotch
• Watch for in September and October

Current Issues in Plant Pathology

Mike Munster

Plant Disease & Insect Clinic

Plant pathologist, Diagnostician

• A cerambycid beetle, Physocnemum andreae
• Stinging caterpillars
• Saddleback Caterpillar, Acharia (formerly Sibine) stimulea
• Hag Moth, Phobetron pithecium
• Stinging Rose Caterpillar, Parasa indetermina
• Skiff Caterpillar, Prolimacodes badia – NOT A STINGING CATERPILLAR
• Spiny Oak Slug, Euclea delphinii
• Puss Caterpillar, Megalopyge opercularis
• A longhorned beetle, Parandra brunnea
• Lesser Canna Leafroller, Geshna cannalis
• Amber Snails, family Succineidae
• Unidentified crayfish burrows
• European hornet, Vespa crabro, collecting bark from a

Regional Update

Coastal Plains:

Regional Update

Piedmont:

Brenda Larson, Lee County

Regional Update

Mountain/Foothills:

Colleen Church, Davie County

Featured Speaker:

Dr. Nancy Creamer

Local Food Security

2012 Show Stopper Plants

Current Issues in Entomology

David Stephan

NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic

Insect identification specialist

40 years of experience in the Clinic

• Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, damage to wood
• Organpipe Mud Dauber Wasp, Trypargilum politum
• Stephan’s Scale of Household Pests (as opposed to household nuisances)
• 10 = termites
• 9 = bed bugs
• 8 = carpenter ants, powderpost beetles
• 7 = cockroaches
• 6 = carpet beetles, clothes moths
• 5 = fleas
• 4 = household ants
• 3 = flour, grain, and meal beetles and moths
• 2 = household spiders, silverfish, booklice
• 1 = springtails, darkwinged fungus gnats
• Elm Sawfly, Cimbex Americana
• Walkingsticks
• Two-striped Walkingstick, Anisomorpha buprestoides
• Walkingstick, Diapheromera femorata
• Cecropia Moth, Hyalophora cecropia
• Gall Midge, Taxodiomyia sp. on baldcypress

Current Issues in Plant Pathology

Mike Munster

Plant Disease & Insect Clinic

Plant pathologist, Diagnostician

commercial ornamentals

(nurseries and greenhouses)

General: nuisance fungi

• Woody ornamentals: box blight, Phytophthora root rot
• Flower beds: black root rot, Sclerotinia stem rot, gray mold (Botrytis)
• Cruciferous vegetables: black rot, white spot of turnip, and Sclerotinia stem rot