2011 Use
Statistics for Virginia Fruit Page
Altogether there were 151,030 page views to pages within this web site in
2011.
Of the fruit crops
represented in the Virginia Fruit Page the Grape page received the most
use (4,305 page views), followed by the Apple Page (2,450 views),
the Peach Page
(1,185 page views), the Small Fruit page (1,083 page
views), and the Pear Page
(514 page views).
The
dozen leading pest species across fruit crops whose pages were
visited were (in decreasing order) stink bugs (including brown
marmorated stink bug), green June beetle, Japanese beetle,
drosophilids (including spotted wing drosophila), periodical
cicada, black cherry aphid, plum curculio, tarnished plant bug,
strawberry weevil, spider mites, codling moth, thrips and pear
psylla.
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 25,351 page views associated with the Spray
Bulletin for Commercial Tree Fruit Growers (41% Apple, 34% Peach
and Nectarine,10%
Cherry, 9%
Pear, 6% Plum), 2,777 page views to pages associated with the
Spray Guide for Commercial Vineyards, 1,193 page views to pages
associated with the Spray Guide for Commercial Small Fruit (70%
Blueberry, 19% Strawberry, 11% Caneberry), and 12,052 page views
to pages associated with the Spray Guide for Home Fruit (43%
Apple and Pear, 25% Grape, 15% Stone Fruit, 9% Strawberry, 5% Blueberry, 3% Caneberry). (In the
VCE website, the PDF version of the commercial tree fruit guide
received 337 visits, the commercial vineyard site received 224
visits, the commercial small fruit guide received 224 visits,
and the home fruit guide received 495 visits).
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