Departments of Plant Pathology and Entomology
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
North Carolina State University

ANNOUNCEMENTS
AND
GENERAL
INFORMATION

North Carolina Pest News
Volume 12, Number 1, April 25, 1997
Stephen J. Toth, Jr. and Thomas A. Melton, editors

The information and recommendations in this newsletter are applicable to North Carolina
and may not apply in other areas.

Welcome to the 1997 North Carolina Pest News

Welcome to the first issue of North Carolina Pest News for 1997. North Carolina Pest News is a newsletter published in electronic form by the Departments of Plant Pathology and Entomology at North Carolina State University, and contains up-to-date information on the status of disease and insect pests in North Carolina from extension specialists in the two departments. Steve Toth (Extension Entomologist) and Tom Melton (Extension Plant Pathologist) are the editors of the newsletter.

From now until the middle of September, new issues of North Carolina Pest News will be available every Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. on Caroline under the newgroup ncces.pest.news. To insure that you receive North Carolina Pest News, you must subscribe to the ncces.pest.news newsgroup on Caroline. The newsletter will also be available by Monday afternoon on the World Wide Web at the following location: http://ipm.ncsu.edu/current_ipm/pest_news.html.

We hope that North Carolina Pest News will meet your individual needs for information on the occurrence of disease and insect pests in North Carolina. Please direct any suggestions or comments to Steve Toth or Tom Melton.

Web page last updated on April 28, 1997 by Stephen J. Toth, Jr..

This Web version is a cooperative effort between the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service and the Center for Integrated Pest Management