Posted on May 20, 2013 by southernipmcenter
For more than 20 years, specialists with the University of Kentucky Integrated Pest Management Program have trapped moths of Kentucky’s major agricultural pests to give producers an early warning about potential outbreaks. A recent UK College of Agriculture survey shows this program is paying financial and environmental dividends for the agricultural industry.
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Posted on May 20, 2013 by southernipmcenter
By Dominic Reisig, North Carolina Extension Entomologist, In Southeast Farm Press
Kudzu bug activity has heightened with the warm weather in the past two weeks.
Adults are flying from over-wintering sites and searching for their reproductive hosts, wisteria, kudzu and soybeans.
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