David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Sweet Corn Spider mites occasionally cause problems in sweet corn, particularly if large numbers are developing on the ear leaf at the beginning of silking or earlier. There are no hard and fast thresholds for… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Soybeans Continue scouting for corn earworm in double crop wheat beans. Last week, I wrote an article about how to use the corn earworm threshold calculator for when soybean value is above 10 dollars per… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Sweet Corn Corn earworm counts have come down slightly over last week, but still in the high category, indicating a 3-day spray schedule for most areas where our traps are at. Temperatures are forecast to… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu The much-anticipated corn earworm flight has begun for 2023, albeit more than 2 weeks later than last year. Traps that were catching 1 – 12 moths last week at this time are now catching dozens… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Congratulations to Mike Webb for correctly identifying the damage to the soybean pod as being caused by either the corn earworm, aka the soybean podworm, cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm, sorghum headworm, vetchworm…. Soon it will… Continue Reading
