David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Last week’s GTP was a stumper. Not many insects will tie trifoliates together and feed. Beet armyworm will tie leaves together and feed, but not usually abundant in soybean. This one was the handiwork of… Continue Reading
This week, I wandered into a soybean field and saw a trifoliate glued together with sticky silk and some feeding injury. Who does this? Enter your guess at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oz5-yCm8xifZtDlvZ-vPbd8a0GR-V6H9ddb9fhAyzzY/edit.
Congratulations to Lexi Kessler and several others for correctly de-acronymizing norther corn leaf blight, gray leaf spot, sudden death syndrome, and fusarium head blight. All correct entrants will be entered for an end of yearbook give-away.
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu EPA is proposing to cancel dimethoate use in asparagus, wheat, cole crops, and cucurbits. If you are interested in providing comment, please do so by the end of July. From EPA: “The PID and updated… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu This week we are reminded of grain crop diseases that will soon be at play or (hopefully) got shot out of the back of the combine. What diseases do these acronyms stand for? SDS FHB… Continue Reading
