2014 Use
Statistics for Virginia Fruit Page
Altogether there were 72,422 page views to pages within this web site in
2014.
Of
the fruit crops represented in the Virginia Fruit Page the Grape page received the most
use (2,952 page views), followed by the Apple Page (1,526 views), the Small Fruit page (588 page
views), the Peach
Page (424 page views), and the Pear Page (209 page views).
The dozen leading pest
species across fruit crops whose pages were visited were (in
decreasing order) invasive drosophilids (spotted wing drosophila
86%, African fig fly 14%), green June beetle, Japanese beetle,
strawberry root weevil, thrips, brown marmorated stink bug, grape
berry moth, codling moth, tarnished plant bug, oriental fruit
moth, blackberry psyllid, and spider mites.
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
9,893
page views associated with the Spray Bulletin for Commercial
Tree Fruit Growers (59% Apple, 20% Peach and Nectarine, 9% Cherry, 7% Pear, 5%
Plum), 3,496 page views to pages associated with the Spray
Guide for Commercial Vineyards, 318 page views to pages
associated with the Spray Guide for Commercial Small Fruit
(43% Strawberry, 40% Blueberry, 17% Caneberry), and 5,831 page
views to pages associated with the Spray Guide for Home Fruit
(51% Apple and Pear, 13% Grape, 24% Stone Fruit, 6% Blueberry, 4% Strawberry, 2%
Caneberry). (In the VCE website, the PDF version of the
commercial tree fruit guide received 98 visits, the
commercial vineyard site received 133 visits, the commercial
small fruit guide received 98 visits, and the home
fruit guide received 149 visits).
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