Consider a Spray for Cereal Leaf Beetle
Fortunately this has not been a bad year for cereal leaf beetle. Unfortunately, in places where the beetle has been found, it has been developing very slowly. The beetle develops quicker in warmer...
View ArticleKudzu Bug Seedling Soybean Spray (Threshold) Recommendations
Kudzu bug activity has heightened with the warm weather in the past two weeks. Adults are flying from overwintering sites and searching for their reproductive hosts, wisteria, kudzu and soybeans. In...
View ArticleShould You Spray Your Corn for Stink Bugs?
The short answer to whether you should or should not spray is no for 99% of our corn growers. Stink bug abundances in wheat are even lower than last year. Furthermore, most corn is nowhere near the...
View ArticleKudzu Bug Soybean Scouting and Treatment Update
There are a number of things I would like to address with this article. 1) Where we are in the life cycle and how this might impact your management efforts; 2) best known scouting procedures; and 3)...
View ArticleInsecticides for Plant Bugs
With cotton squaring and flowering weeks away, it is a good idea to think about treatment options for plant bugs. Generally the neonicotinoid-class insecticides perform well early in the season before...
View ArticleWet Weather, Cotton and Soybean Insects
A friend of mine, Owen Taylor, who maintains AgFax thought that it was really interesting that more rain has fallen across North Carolina in the past month than the yearly total of where I was raised....
View ArticleScouting and Thresholds for Threecorned Alfalfa Hopper in Soybean
Below is a link for an excellent podcast from Scott Stewart, University of Tennessee Extension Entomologist. We recommend treating at one per sweep for beans under 10 inches tall in NC, but Dr....
View ArticleScouting Kudzu Bug
Post by Dominic Reisig, with sampling information from Alejandro Del Pozo-Valdiva, NCSU Dept. of Entomology PhD student. I’ve received many calls about the presence of nymphs in soybeans that are not...
View ArticleStink Bug App Now Available!
Article by Jack Bacheler, NCSU Extension Entomologist We have a new web-based stink bug decision aid app posted on our Cotton Insect Corner web site here. This app is also located as the first icon on...
View Article2013 Early-Season Plant Bug Insecticide Results
Recommendations for plant bug insecticides have been covered previously (here). The results to the left represent an early-season application applied above threshold. Five days after treatment,...
View ArticleKudzu Bug Threshold in Practice
Perhaps you are one of the unfortunate ones dealing with kudzu bug in your full-season soybeans. Many fields are near threshold- one nymph per “swoosh of the net”- but look like they will not really...
View ArticleKudzu Bug Migration is Nearing Peak
In southern NC, we should reach peak migration of adults into soybeans this week. Some fields have already reached one nymph per sweep, with population densities so large that they will require a...
View ArticleResistant Earworms and Budworms Likely in Soybeans
I received several calls today about reports of corn earworm in soybeans. These reports were unusual for at least one reason. Earworms seem widespread geographically, but are spotty from field to...
View ArticleControlling Caterpillars in Sorghum Whorls
Two insects I’ve been hearing about in sorghum whorls are corn earworm and fall armyworm. These insects vary widely in their coloration, so it’s best to see if they are hairy (earworm) or smooth...
View ArticleSoybean Loopers are Here- When and What to Spray
Soybean loopers are a migratory pest that we sometimes see in soybeans late in the season. Numbers really picked up in our research plots in the Sandhills region of the state and we’ve picked up more...
View ArticleNew Soybean Stink Bug Insecticide Information
Stink bugs can be difficult to kill in soybeans, especially if brown stink bug is present. Pyrethroids are generally active on green stink bug, with some effect on brown stink bug. Included in this...
View ArticleCotton Insect Update
Article by Jack Bacheler, NCSU Extension Entomologist With the exception of some late cotton fields with decent levels of small bolls and a potential top crop given average conditions going forward,...
View ArticleShould Soybean Loopers Be Treated This Late?
I’ve had a rash of questions lately on soybean loopers, which have been widespread this year. To be honest, I’m still surprised they are around, given the weather. The rule of thumb is that several...
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