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Funding Program: IPM Partnership Grants

Project Title: Providing Northeast Growers Added Weaponry to Integrate into Their Arsenal Against Eggplant Pests

Project Director (PD): Cerruti R.R. Hooks [1]

Lead State: MD Lead Organization: University of Maryland

Undesignated Funding: $8,000

Start Date: May-01-2010 End Date: Apr-30-2011

Pests Involved: Colorado potato beetles, flea beetles, caterpillars, lepidopterans

Site/Commodity: eggplants, vegetables

Area of Emphasis: organic, cultural controls

Summary: Objectives: The main objectives of this project include demonstrating how winter cover crops can be used to help manage eggplant pests and deliver a more sustainable and economically viable IPM program that is welcomed by conventional and organic eggplant growers. Proposal

Final Report:

Outcomes Abbreviated listing 1) Training/power point presentation on using cover crops at Eastern Maryland winter vegetable meetings. Growers trained how to use organic insecticides and cover crops in their eggplant pest management programs, 2) demonstration/research plots established and used for educating stakeholders on the incorporation of crimson clover cover crops in eggplant to manage insects and weeds concurrently 3) presentations at organic conferences on how to use cover crops to reduce Colorado potato beetle numbers, 4) Power point presentations (PPP) developed to train nonprofit society how to integrate crimson clover and other cover crop into a Integrated Pest Management program to mitigate pesticide contamination, 5) Twilight tour of eggplant/crimson clover study plot to MD stakeholders in Southern Maryland, 6) presentation of research findings at the Entomological Society of America, and 7) publication prepared from field experiment and submitted to refereed journal is currently under review. Specific Conferences and Presentations 19th Annual Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association (MOFFA) Winter Meeting. Use of cover crops to manage flea beetles and Colorado potato beetle in eggplant, February 20, 2010. Annapolis, Maryland. Hooks, C.R.R. 2010. Added weaponry for integration into the arsenal against eggplant pests. University of Maryland Extension Vegetable and Fruit Headline News 12: 5. Hooks, C.R.R. 2011. Can Crimson Clover Hide Eggplant from the Infamous Colorado Potato Beetle. University of Maryland Extension Vegetable and Fruit Headline News 2 (5): 4-5. Eastern Shore Vegetable Meeting and Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Training. Integrating cover crops into a Colorado potato beetle pest management plan. March 16, 2010. Cambridge, Maryland. Southern Maryland Vegetable and Fruit Meeting. Eggplant insect control with winter cover crops and organic insecticides. April 15, 2010. Edgewater, Maryland. Hooks, C.R.R., E. Zobel, A. Anderson, T. Patton, J. Hinds, T. Larmore, and A. Rosario-Lebron. Management of the Colorado potato beetle (Leptionotarsa decemlineata) through modification of the eggplant environment. ESA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA Dec 12-15, 2010. Maryland Organic Food and farming Association (MOFFA) Winter Meeting. Organic research update: management of the Colorado potato beetle through modification of the eggplant environment. Annapolis, Maryland, February 19, 2011. National Capital Region Watershed Stewards Academy (WSA). Anacostia Watershed Society. Integrated pest management and problems from pesticide use. Bladensburg, MD, March 26, 2011. University of Maryland, AGNR, Open public twilight meeting/field tour. Alternative Vegetable Intercropping & Cover Crop IPM Systems, Upper Marlboro, MD August 4, 2010.

Impacts Impact are still being assessed but many vegetable farmers in Maryland both organic and conventional who had not consider using crimson clover cover crop as part of their program for managing insects such as the Colorado potato beetle are now more knowledgeable on the topic.

Report Appendices Final Report 2011 [PDF]

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