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Vegetable Insect Scouting

May 29, 2025raharris

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu  Sweet Corn Courtesy of Monday being a holiday, traps were checked on Tuesday and are currently being checked. Next week we will return to a Monday/Thursday trap checking schedule. Be sure to deploy traps adjacent… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized 33:12, potato leafhopper, seed corn maggot, striped cucumber beetle

Vegetable Crop Insect Scouting

May 1, 2025raharris

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 →

Vegetable Crops 33:8, asparagus beetle, Colorado Potato beetle, diamond back moth, flea beetle, seed corn maggot, striped cucumber beetle

Guess the Pest! Week 2 Answer: Seed Corn Maggot

April 17, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

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 →

Vegetable Crops 28:5, peas, seed corn maggot

Seed Maggots Very Active in Our Area on Early Planted Vegetables

April 10, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

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 →

Vegetable Crops 28:4, seed corn maggot, vegetable crop establishment

Seed Maggot Problems in Some Fields

May 10, 2019cmanneri

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 →

Vegetable Crops 27:7, seed corn maggot

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