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  • Image: Stalk Borers 1
    Credit: Jeff Hahn
  • Image: Stalk Borers 2

    Credit: Eric Burkness

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green arrowStalk Borers

  • Damage occurs June to early August
  • Leaves wilt
  • Entrance hole where the caterpillar bores into the stem near ground level
  • Caterpillar can sometimes be found in stem
  • 3/4 to 2 inches long
  • Reddish brown head, brownish purple body with whitish stripes
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  • Image: White Mold 1
    Credit: Michelle Grabowski
  • Image: White Mold 2

    Credit: Michelle Grabowski

  • Image: White Mold 3

    Credit: Michelle Grabowski

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green arrowWhite Mold
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

  • Dark, firm watersoaked lesion on stem
  • Girdled stems die and turn bone white
  • Inside dead stems are black mouse poop shaped sclerotia
  • Fruit are soft and rotted
  • Cottony white mycelia inside and outside infected stems when humidity is high
  • Favored by cool humid conditions
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