David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Sorghum Scout late sorghum for corn earworm and sugarcane aphid. Last week, a field of sorghum we had been looking at that just finished pollinating was over threshold for corn earworm, and our variety trial… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Soybean Reports are starting to come in of threshold levels of corn earworm in soybean. As a reminder, NCSU has a good earworm threshold calculator: https://www.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CEW-calculator-v0.006.html. Moths were active last week in fields with flowers,… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Sorghum A report of sugarcane aphid activity came in from Kent County this week. This aphid has the potential to cause significant yield loss as late as the soft dough stage. Thresholds range anywhere from… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Soybean Continue scouting for corn earworm and stink bugs. Especially in double crop soybean, pay attention to defoliation. Green cloverworm populations have increased a bit during the past 10 days, and soybean looper are starting… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Sorghum Begin scouting this week for sugarcane aphid and corn earworm. So far we have not yet detected white sugarcane aphids from the 5 fields we have been looking at. There are two other aphid… Continue Reading
