2012 Use
Statistics for Virginia Fruit Page
Altogether there were 145,937 page views to
pages within this web site in 2012.
Of
the fruit crops represented in the Virginia Fruit Page the Grape page received the most
use (4,007 page views), followed by the Apple Page (2,634 views), the Small Fruit page (959 page
views), the Peach
Page (942 page views), and the Pear Page (458 page views).
The dozen leading pest
species across fruit crops whose pages were visited were (in
decreasing order) brown marmorated stink bug (and other stink
bugs) (BMSB 56%, stink bugs in general 44%), green June beetle, tarnished plant
bug, Japanese beetle, spotted
wing drosophila,
oriental fruit moth, strawberry bud weevil, grape berry
moth, strawberry thrips, cyclamen mite, European red mite,
grape flea beetle.
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
13,172 page views associated with the Spray Bulletin for
Commercial Tree Fruit Growers (40% Apple, 34% Peach and
Nectarine,10% Cherry, 11% Pear, 6% Plum), 1,070 page views to
pages associated with the Spray Guide for Commercial
Vineyards, 936 page views to pages associated with the Spray
Guide for Commercial Small Fruit (70% Blueberry, 21%
Strawberry, 9% Caneberry), and 7,185 page views to pages
associated with the Spray Guide for Home Fruit (50% Apple and
Pear, 16% Grape, 21% Stone Fruit, 7% Strawberry, 4% Blueberry, 2%
Caneberry). (In the VCE website, the PDF version of the
commercial tree fruit guide received 1,870 visits, the
commercial vineyard site received 226 visits, the commercial
small fruit guide received 117 visits, and the home fruit
guide received 321 visits).
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