David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Melons Begin scouting for striped cucumber beetle on early planted fields. With the unusually warm weather lately, they should be out and flying. Thresholds for striped cucumber beetles range from 2-5 per plant. If running… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Congratulations to Michael Crossley for correctly identifying seedcorn maggot as the culprit behind the missing pea stand! The photo was taken of a field in which we try to do everything wrong: disking in fallow… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu The unusually warm winter and early spring we have had up to now has allowed large populations of seed and root maggots to invade our vegetable fields. Some farms have been… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu This spring has been pretty good for pests of early planted seeds and bulbs—the seed corn maggot Delia platura (SCM) and other seed maggots such as Cabbage maggot Delia radicum (it… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Because insects generally have limited mechanisms of regulating their temperature, insect development and life history is tied to ambient temperature. This enables certain life history events to be predicted fairly accurately. The easiest way to… Continue Reading
