David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu
This was a busy year for Dectes, earworm, and soybean aphid, and not a very busy slug year. Dr. Kelly Hamby and myself are conducting a soybean pest loss survey to gain a better understanding of how insect and slug pests impacted the 2025 soybean crop. These surveys also help us formulate research questions, plans, and justify our work. Your perspective is incredibly valuable for us to make these surveys as accurate as possible. You can find last year’s survey results for Maryland and Delaware (and other states) here: https://midsouthentomologist.org.msstate.edu/pdfs/Vol18_1/MusserEtAl2025.pdf
If you have a few minutes, please fill out the survey. While this is an anonymous survey and no identifying information is collected or used, if you do send us your name, we will select a few respondents to receive a copy of the Farmer’s Guide to Soybean Diseases. If you have any questions, please contact either of us!
Local Contact: David Owens and Ben Sammarco
Email: owensd@udel.edu
Phone: 302 698-7125
Local Contact: Kelly Hamby
Email: kahamby@umd.edu
Phone: 925 354 0483
