2010 Use Statistics for Virginia Fruit Page
Altogether there were 158,980 page
views to pages within this web
site in 2010.
Of
the fruit crops represented in the Virginia Fruit Page
the Grape
page received the most use (4,566
page views), followed by the Apple
Page
(2,991 views), the Peach Page (1,286 page views),
the Small
Fruit
page
(1,112 page views), and the Pear Page (510 page views).
The
dozen leading
pest species across fruit crops whose pages were visited were (in
decreasing
order) stink bugs, periodical cicada, Japanese beetle, oriental fruit
moth, codling
moth, plum curculio, tarnished plant bug, grape berry moth, strawberry
weevil, Drosophila
pomace flies, black cherry aphid, cyclamen mite, and grape phylloxera.
The site
continues to be used by both commercial
and home fruit producers, reflected by use statistics for pages based
on
Virginia Tech pest management recommendations. There were 12868 page
views
associated with the Spray Bulletin for Commercial Tree Fruit Growers
(42%
Apple, 28% Peach and Nectarine, 8% Pear, 8% Cherry, 4% Plum), 2,233
page
views to pages associated with the Spray Guide for Commercial
Vineyards, 1.186 page
views to pages associated with the Spray Guide for Commercial Small
Fruit (66%
Blueberry, 17% Strawberry, 17% Caneberry), and 14,825 page views to
pages
associated with the Spray Guide for Home Fruit (44% Apple and Pear, 20%
Grape, 21% Stone Fruit, 4% Blueberry, 6% Strawberry, 4% Caneberry). (In
the
VCE
website, the PDF version of the commercial tree fruit guide received
7,269
visits, the commercial vineyard site received 213 visits, the
commercial
small fruit guide received 232 visits, and the home fruit guide
received 642
visits).
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