The strawberry sap beetle is found throughout the Eastern and upper Mid-western United States. Although primarily a pest on strawberry, the beetle damages raspberry and will feed on a wide range of other crops, including ...

The grape cane borer is a wood feeding beetle in the Bostrichidae family that is widely distributed across eastern North America and in Europe. Also known as the apple twig borer, adult beetles tunnel into live grape canes ...

Leafroll is one of the most important virus diseases of grapevine. It occurs in every major grape-growing region of the world. Grapevine leafroll disease can affect all native and Vitis vinifera cultivars, hybrids, and ...

Plum pox is a viral disease of stone fruits first reported in Bulgarian plums in the 1910’s. More widely known around the world by its Slavic name, sharka, the disease first spread slowly through eastern Europe, gaining ...

Black rot is an important fungal disease of grapes that originated in eastern North America, but which now occurs in portions of Europe, South America, and Asia as well. It can cause complete crop loss in warm, humid ...