Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

The second NEERA1306 SAES-422 annual meeting was held on December 3, 2104 at the Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Winchester, VA as part of the 2014 Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) Working Group Meeting. During the presentation portion of the meeting, several project participants presented results of studies conducted during the summer of 2014. These included: Virginia Tech – Update on insecticide efficacy work at Virginia Tech. Penn State – Shedding new light on mark-release-recapture: Laser detection of fluorescent-marked BMSB. Rutgers – The importance of time when sampling for BMSB in peaches; Volunteer Geographic information: How crowd sourced data is helping to map the spread of BMSB. The business portion of the meeting was held during lunch. During the meeting participants discussed the use of pheromone traps as monitoring tools in various crop systems. Key highlights included: 1. Ohio State: Celeste Welty compared the dead-end trap, a yellow and black PVC pipe they designed and the black pyramid trap we all use. The data was collected in sweet corn. The results have not been analyzed yet. 2. Virginia Tech: Tom Kuhar compared traps in vegetable crops with traps placed in the woods prior to placing traps in vegetables. The traps in the vegetable caught no BMSB while those in the woods did. It was also mentioned that the traps may be useful in tomatoes since visual counts do not work (no BMSB found but damage is present). Chris Bergh conducted a two week study looking at BMSB trap efficiency when the pheromone lure was placed inside and outside the trap. More BSMB were caught when the lure was outside the trap. Will be conducting a study next year looking at pheromone load before and after deployment. 3. Pennsylvania State University – Grzegorz Krawczyk consistently finds more BMSB in trees next to where they place traps. The group then had a general discussion regarding the traps and pheromone lures being offered about by commercial companies, trap design and pheromone delivery methods. This could be an issue since each company has their own trap design and method to deliver the pheromone. More work to compare the different combinations will need to be done. The group then discussed whether or not we are ready to recommend to growers the use of traps for BMSB monitoring. The general consensus was that we can but there will need to be further refinements as more work is done. The final discussion was regarding the next annual meeting. It was agreed that it should again be held in conjunction with the 2015 BMSB Working Group meeting.

• Development of BMSB monitoring methods • Correlation of landscape factors with BMSB movement and spread • Identification of effective insecticide for use in vegetables • Develop and management of management recommendations for fruit and vegetable growers

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