Posted on September 21, 2018 by southernipmcenter
From Insects in the City
Pest management professionals who care for lawns should be on the alert for fall armyworms this fall. Higher-than-normal populations of this lawn-eating insect have been reported from many areas in Texas these past two weeks.
While fall armyworms are nothing new, according to Dr. Allen Knutson, extension agricultural entomologist in Dallas, this year they are a widespread problem for hay producers and small grains producers across the state. “I’ve had calls as far west as Wichita Falls, south to Comanche and across east Texas,” he said. Locally in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, my turfgrass colleague, Dr. Lindsey Hoffman, and I have gotten many calls this week from concerned lawn owners, schools and the media. Continue reading →
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Posted on April 19, 2018 by southernipmcenter
A host-specific virus is being used to control bollworms and budworms in Arkansas crops.
Helicoverpa nucleopolyhedrovirus, or just NPV, does not affect humans, plants or other insects, including those that are beneficial. Continue reading →
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Posted on February 15, 2017 by southernipmcenter
In Southeast Farm Press
Both Clemson University and North Carolina State University are issuing warning bells for nematodes in the Carolinas.
The nematode issue was front in center at both Clemson’s corn and soybean production meeting in Dillon, S.C., Feb. 8 and at N.C. State’s Road Show production meeting the following day in Plymouth, N.C. A concern in both states is the Southern root knot nematode and the soybean cyst nematode. Continue reading →
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Posted on August 25, 2015 by southernipmcenter
In Delta Farm Press
by Sebe Brown and David Kerns, LSU AgCenter Entomologists
As Louisiana soybeans progress into late summer, producers and consultants should be wary of late-season defoliators such as soybean loopers, velvet bean caterpillars and lingering populations of corn earworms.
Soybean loopers have the ability to build large populations quickly and are exaggerated by the use of broad-spectrum insecticides for three-cornered alfalfa hoppers and stink bugs.
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Posted on August 25, 2015 by southernipmcenter
Entomologists in Texas got a whiff of a new stink bug doing economic damage to soybeans in Texas and are developing ways to help farmers combat it, according to a report in the journal Environmental Entomology.
Various types of stink bugs have long been a problem on soybean crops, but when sweeps of fields in southeast Texas netted 65 percent redbanded stink bugs, entomologists realized this particular bug had become the predominant pest problem, according to Dr. Mo Way, an entomologist at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Beaumont.
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Posted on July 20, 2015 by southernipmcenter
In Delta Farm Press
LSU AgCenter researchers are looking at different aspects of the redbanded stink bug. Changes in the state’s climate seem to be causing changes in the population of this insect in Louisiana, LSU entomologist Jeff Davis said.
“Redbanded stink bug is still our major stink bug pest and has been for the past 15 years,” Davis said. “But last year throughout the state there were very low populations.”
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Posted on July 16, 2014 by southernipmcenter
In Southeast Farm Press
There are reports of worms in early season soybeans in North Carolina, but at this point density levels aren’t a concern, according to North Carolina Extension entomologist Dominic Reisig.
After sampling numerous fields, Reisig says there are spots where corn earworm and tobacco budworm are present. In a blog posting, Reisig explained that identification is the first step if worms are present in your soybeans.
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Posted on May 28, 2014 by southernipmcenter
The following is directly from the North Carolina soybean blog, written by Dominic Reisig, entomologist:
I have been monitoring a kudzu patch in Edgecombe Co. since late April this year. As expected, adults from overwintering flocked to kudzu to feed, mate and lay eggs. These adults were produced from last year’s batch and survived our colder than normal winter with ease. Around the middle of May, most adults had died and 99% of the terminals had 30-50 eggs laid by these adults.
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Posted on May 27, 2014 by southernipmcenter
In Southeast Farm Press
By Clint Thompson, University of Georgia
University of Georgia entomologist Michael Toews says there’s a wasp that controls kudzu bug populations in Asia, where the kudzu bug originates. The wasp might do the same in the U.S.
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Posted on January 14, 2014 by southernipmcenter
From Southeast Farm Press
If you’ve been growing soybeans the same old way year after year, things might be about to change.
“The kudzu bug — in my opinion — has the potential to change everything we’ve ever had to do in managing soybean insects,” says Auburn University Extension entomologist Tim Reed.
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