David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu and Bill Cissel, Extension Agent – Integrated Pest Management; bcissel@udel.edu Continue scouting for defoliators and for pod feeding insects. Primary defoliators are green cloverworm, bean leaf beetle, and Japanese beetles. A few more aphids have… Continue Reading
Bill Cissel, Extension Agent – Integrated Pest Management; bcissel@udel.edu Congratulations Julie Knudson for correctly identifying the damage in the photo as soybean leafminer damage and for being selected to be entered into the end of season raffle for $100 not… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu and Bill Cissel, Extension Agent – Integrated Pest Management; bcissel@udel.edu Some fields are experiencing borderline economic defoliation. The rain this week means that soybeans are growing again and that is going to help them. Many… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu and Bill Cissel, Extension Agent – Integrated Pest Management; bcissel@udel.edu Japanese beetles, green cloverworm, bean leafrollers, and grasshoppers are the primary defoliators that we have seen in soybean samples. Bean leaf beetles are also starting… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu and Bill Cissel, Extension Agent – Integrated Pest Management; bcissel@udel.edu The usual defoliators are present in fields, albeit in low numbers this week. We are finding green cloverworms, bean leafrollers, grasshoppers, an occasional bean leaf… Continue Reading
