Source: Hannah Burrack, NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 6/5/18


This is the seventeenth thrips flight and TSWV risk assessment report. Read about why we are posting these reports and more in our first report. Read more about tobacco thrips biology and TSWV transmission.

Fourth generation thrips flights are predicted or have begun at all of our report sites. We will continue to post reports through next week. If you are seeing disease develop in your fields or in your area, please let us know–we are interested to see how predictions are lining up with reality.

Growers are reminded to use the most recent information available to make management decisions. Predictions are most accurate closer to predicted thrips flight dates. The information presented here is intended to supplement, but not replace, farm-specific predictions.

One of our extension agents pointed out that ZIP codes were not generating reports at some locations. If an address or ZIP code produces an error message at the Tobacco Thrips and TSWV Risk Forecasting Tool, please use the map to select your location instead. Using the map has not produced error messages.

For the full report, click here.