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Click below for past editions of the TSU Nursery News To Use newsletter.

2019

May 2019 – Japanese Maple Scale Hatch; Ambrosia Beetle Attacks and Tracking

June 2019 – Japanese Maple Scale Crawlers and Flea Beetle Alert; Herbicide Drift; Potato Leafhopper

July 2019 – Powdery Mildew on Flowering Dogwood; Phythopthora Management; Spruce Spider Mite

August 2019 – Southern Blight; Soil Nutrition and Plant Deficiencies

September 2019 – Potato Leafhopper continued; Botryosphaeria Canker; Pre-emergent Herbicide Use

October 2019 – Laurel Wilt; Hornbeam Rust

November 2019 – Spotted Lanternfly Alert; Phytophthora Crown and Root Rot

December 2019 – Using Horticultural Oils; Using the Online Tennessee Pesticide System

2020

January 2020 – Boxwood Leafminer Activity; Dormant Oil Use for Japanese Maple Scale

February 2020 – Granulate Ambrosia Beetle; TSU NRC Plastic Recycling Program and Pesticide Pickup

March 2020 – Granulate Ambrosia Beetle Flight Alert; Box Tree Moth; H2A Visa Updates

April 2020 – Covid 19; Box Tree Moth Trapping Updates; Hairy Bittercress Weed Control; Maple Insect Pests (Potato Leaf Hopper, Maple Shoot Borer and Granulate Ambrosia Beetle)

May 2020 – Japanese Beetle Calibration Reminder, Cicada Mapping, Yellow Woodsorrel Weed Control; Oak Phylloxera; Boxwood Leafminer Trial

July 2020 – How to Handle a Positive Covid19 Test; Creeping Woodsorrel Weed Control; Potato Leafhopper Continued Damage; Box Tree Moth Trapping update; Heat Stress on Woody Ornamentals; High Insect Pressure (Eriophyid Mites and Sawflies)

August 2020 – Spotted Spurge Weed Control; Iron Deficiency in Woody Ornamentals; Shot Hole Disease of Prunus species)

September 2020 – Asian Longhorned Beetle Pest Alert; TDA Shipping Compliance Updates; Bagworms; Northern Willowherb Weed Control; Periodical Cicada in 2021

October 2020 – Redheaded Flea Beetle; Scale Insect Identification and Control Recommendations; Mulberry Weed Control; Periodical Cicada in 2021 Update

November 2020 – Purple Spot on Oak; TSU Nursery Research Center YouTube Page Announcement; Cicada Updates; Dormant Oil Reminder

December 2020 – Annual Bluegrass Weed Control; Flatheaded Borer Research Study

2021

January 2021 – Japanese Maple Scale Scouting; Spotted Lanterfly

February 2021 – Elongate Hemlock Scale, Common Chickweed, Southern Root Knot Nematode, Box Tree Moth Update, Scouting and IPM

March 2021 – Cold weather injury, TSU NRC plastic recycling program, Weed of the month: large crabgrass, Fungicides as preventatives for soil pathogens, Spruce Spider mite, Ambrosia beetle preventative controls

April 2021 – Beneficial insect reminder, Yellow nutsedge id and control, TSU plastic recycling program, Black flagging on arborvitae, fireblight

May 2021 – Box Tree Moth, Potato Leafhopper, Wild Carrot Control, Phytophthora ramorum

June 2021 – Oak phylloxera, Hairy vetch control, Herbicide damage, Box tree moth update and information link

August 2021 – Nostoc species, Girdling roots

September 2021 – Marestail, Hackberry Island Chlorosis

November 2021 – Control of Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica), Magnolia spp. seed collection and Cercis Canadensis

2022

January 2022 – Dangers of shallow planting, redbud update, and control of Musk Thistle (Carduus nutans)

February 2022 – Control of Curly Dock (Rumex crispus), Japanese maple scale scouting, Vascular Streak Dieback and redbud update

March 2022 – Crapemyrtle bark scale, Vascular Streak Dieback update and control of common groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)

April 2022 – Pollinator reminder, Sun Spurge (Euphrobia helioscopia) control, boxwood psyllid control and fireblight

June 2022 – Pruning redbuds, control of Cut-leaf evening primrose (Oenothera laciniata), dealing with herbicide drift and cover crop equipment update

July 2022 – Clean pruning, Mugwork (Artemesia vulgaris) control and iron deficiency

2023

February 2023 – Granulate Ambrosia Beetle, Yellow Nutsedge, winter injury

March 2023 – Crape Myrtle Bark Scale, Boxwood Leaf Miner, winter injury

April 2023 – Japanese Maple Scale, Granulate Ambrosia Beetle, Annual Sowthistle

May 2023 – Flatheaded Appletree Borer, Granulate Ambrosia Beetle, Prickly Sida

June 2023 – Potato Leaf Hopper, Japanese Maple Scale, Spiny Amaranth, Spiny Pigweed

July 2023 – Spruce Spider Mite, Granuate Ambrosia Beetle, Morningglory, IR-4 Survey, Elm Zigzag Sawfly

2024

NRC 2024 Highlights

2025

February 2025 – TDA Webinar, Japanese Maple Scale, and Spotted Lanternfly

March 2025 – Ambrosia Beetle, Japanese Maple Scale, Periodical Cicadas and Upcoming Events

April 2025 – Japanese Beetle Treatment, Arborvitae Leafminer and Herbicide Drift Damage

May 2025 –

Volutella Blight of Boxwood and Periodical Cicada Alert

June 2025 – Box Tree Moth and Excess Rain = Extra Leaching

July 2025 – Asian Longhorned Beetle, Box Tree Moth in VA, Phytophthora Root Rot and Elm Zigzag Sawfly

August 2025 – Southern Blight and Nursery Irrigation Management Infosheets

September 2025 – New Addition, Redheaded Flea Beetle and Cotton Jassid Leaf Hopper

October 2025 – Two-spotted Cotton Leafhopper, Cool Season Cover Crops and Juniper Webworm

November 2025 – Texas Quarantine on Two-Spotted Cotton Leafhopper, plus New Factsheet!

NRC 2025 Highlights

2026

February 2026 – Scout for Upcoming Isect Pests, R ecent Redheaded Flea Beetle Webinar

March 2026 – Scouting for and Managing Ambrosia Beetle Pests and New Factsheet: Crown Gall of Woody Plants

April 2026 – Spruce Spider Mite and New Factsheet: Phytopythium Root and Crown Rot in Nurseries

May 2026 – Tupelo Borer Sightings and TNLA/NRC’s Annual Field Day Wrap-up

June 2026 – Japanese Beetle Treatments for Shipping and Banners for Best Planting Depth Practices