Virginia Turfgrass Council | March/April 2023
This issue highlights VTC's recent Come to the Bay event. Also includes features on pollinators as well as boxwood blight and fire ants.
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What started a few years ago as a two-day conference with a vision to uniquely serve the industry has expanded to four full days of classes and service.
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On Monday, January 23 we restored a 1,700 square foot bioswale at the entrance of Pleasure House Point and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Center.
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This was our second year at the Virginia Crossings Conference Center, located just north of Richmond.
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By Margaret J. Couvillon | Assistant Professor of Pollinator Biology and Ecology Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech
Plants are mostly stationary. Although they can move a little bit, growing upwards and outwards, these movements are small, slow, and generally insufficient for finding a mate, especially if you want to reproduce sexually every year.
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By Chuan Hong | Virginia Tech
This iconic landscape plant is endangered due to an emerging disease – boxwood blight caused by a fungal pathogen (Calonectria pseudonaviculata).
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By Terri Billeisen, Ph.D. | Turfgrass Entomology Lab, North Carolina State University
In turfgrass, the red imported fire ant (RIFA; Solenopsis invicta) is of primary concern both for its potential to create unsightly mounds and its readiness to sting anyone who disturbs it
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By Terri Billeisen, Ph.D. | Turfgrass Entomology Lab, North Carolina State University
Frequently Asked Questions (and answers!) about Red Imported Fire Ants.
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