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Bean Leaf Beetles Showing up in Early Snap Beans

May 23, 2025raharris

Veronica Yurchak, Vegetable Specialist, UMD; vjohnso4@umd.edu Figure 1. Bean leaf beetle adults with characteristic highlighted. Bean leaf beetles (BLB), C. trifucata, are showing up in snap beans in some areas of the Eastern Shore. This sporadic pest has the potential… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 33:11, bean leaf beetle

Agronomic Crop Insect Scouting

September 24, 2023raharris

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Soybean At this point, earworms are largely out of the system. Continue scouting for bean leaf beetle and stink bugs. Large numbers of bean leaf beetle can scar pods, weakening them and potentially allowing disease… Continue Reading →

Agronomic Crops 31:26, bean leaf beetle, stink bug

Agronomic Insect Update – May 25, 2018

May 25, 2018Emmalea Garver Ernest

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Although worms tend not to like prolonged wet weather, both black cutworm and true armyworm are active in fields. How much they are suppressed is the open ended question that is almost like predicting a… Continue Reading →

Agronomic Crops 26:9, agronomic crop insect scouting, bean leaf beetle, true armyworm

Guess the Pest!

June 9, 2017cmanneri

Bill Cissel, Extension Agent – Integrated Pest Management; bcissel@udel.edu Congratulations to Mona Steele for identifying the insect damage in this past week’s Guess the Pest and for being selected to be entered into the end of season raffle for $100… Continue Reading →

General 25:11, bean leaf beetle, Guess the Pest!

Field Crop Insect Update

June 9, 2017cmanneri

Bill Cissel, Extension Agent – Integrated Pest Management; bcissel@udel.edu Alfalfa Continue to sample alfalfa for potato leafhoppers. Sample weekly starting seven days after the first cutting until final harvest. Ten sweep net samples should be taken in 10 random locations… Continue Reading →

Agronomic Crops alfalfa, bean leaf beetle, field corn, grasshopper, potato leafhopper, slugs, soybean, true armyworm

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