Topics in Subtropics, Fall 2025 (English)

Topics in Subtropics , Fall 2025 (Spanish) 

Summer has come and we have a new newsletter to cover this period.  Read on the following topics:

• The Role of Pollinators in Avocado Production

  • Is that a Fruit Fly?

 • Sivanto Labeled for Control of Pink Hibiscus Mealybug in Dates

 • Consperse Stink Bug

 • Insights on 2025 Honey Bee Losses

 • Upcoming Meetings 

Read it HERE

https://ucanr.edu/county/cooperative-extension-ventura-county/collection/topics-subtropics

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TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE

• The Role of Pollinators in Avocado Production 

• Is that a Fruit Fly?

 • Sivanto Labeled for Control of Pink Hibiscus Mealybug in Dates 

• Consperse Stink Bug 

• Insights on 2025 Honey Bee Losses 

• Upcoming Meetings

TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE

• Bifenthrin application added as an option to Fuller Rose Beetle Mitigation with Voluntary Sampling to Reduce Pesticide Application
• Selective Egg Staining: a New Tool to Support Breeding of Whitefly Resistant Crops
• Sunblotch! New Tools to Spot This SneakyAvocado Thief
• The Avocado Cone Roller Moth Is Here to Stay—Now What?
• Spring Subtropics Meetings Recap & Upcoming Meetings
o Citrus Meeting at Lindcove
o Avocado Field Day
o Microirrigation for Crop Production

Its out.  Check it out. The Spring edition of Topics in Subtropics quarterly newsletter covering all things subtropical at some point in time.  Bodil Cass, our entomology specialist at UC Riverside is the editor.

Editor: Bodil Cass Spring 2025

TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE

• Bifenthrin application added as an option to Fuller Rose Beetle Mitigation with Voluntary Sampling to      Reduce Pesticide Application

• Selective Egg Staining: a New Tool to Support Breeding of Whitefly Resistant Crops

• Sunblotch! New Tools to Spot This Sneaky Avocado Thief

• The Avocado Cone Roller Moth Is Here to Stay—Now What?

• Spring Subtropics Meetings Recap & Upcoming Meetings

o Citrus Meeting at Lindcove

o Avocado Field Day

o Microirrigation for Crop Production

READ ON: https://ucanr.edu/county-office/cooperative-extension-ventura-county/article/topics-subtropics-spring-2025

Newsletter from the Subtropical Tree Crop Farm Advisors in California

This edition includes the following:

• Date Production Overview
• Guidelines for Managing Grape Powdery Mildew
• Dry Root Rot of Citrus: a Persistent Threat Caused by Fusarium solani in California
• Pest Scouting Reports Needed for Research Study
• Avocado Leaves Evolved to Handle Wetness
• Avocado Guide from Down Under
• Newly Published UCANR Olive Production Manual for Oil Now Available!