March 3, 2010
UMass Extension vegetable specialist Ruth Hazzard, comments in a story about prevention of late blight, the fungus that devastated tomato and potato crops in the Northeast last year. "One thing we're doing at UMass is setting up a weather monitoring system to give growers good information about when problems might develop. And we're also asking gardeners and farmers alike to be very vigilant in watching for infected potato and tomato plants," she said.
Springfield Republican
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February 26, 2010
Deborah Swanson, Extension educator with the Plymouth County Landscape Nursery and Urban Forestry Program warns that the damage this spring from winter moth caterpillars could equal the devastation from the gypsy-moth invasion of a few years ago. In 2006-2007, experts said gypsy moth devastation would be the worst in 25 years.
Brockton Enterprise News
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December 3, 2009
Robert D. Childs, UMass Extension and Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences entomologist, comments on the bumper crop of winter moths that has arrived on the South Shore and Cape Cod. The insects appear to be proliferating. The moths that hatch next spring are expected to defoliate and damage flowering trees, a process that can kill the trees after several years. UMass Amherst and Extension scientists have been involved in releasing a natural predator to the moths, a parasitic fly, but that process may take years to be effective.
Boston Globe
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November 10, 2009
According to 4-H Extension educator Molly Vollmer, the Plymouth County Extension 4-H Program organized this countywide community service project, called “4-H Cares About Community,” to help all the residents of Plymouth County. The Plymouth County Extension 4-H Program presented the South Shore Community Action Council with more than 250 bags of groceries Nov. 5, to benefit the Council’s Greater Plymouth Food Resource Group for the upcoming holiday season.
Halifax-Plympton Reporter
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