Vegetable Crop Insect Scouting David Owens, Extension Entomologist; owensd@udel.edu Sweet Corn Corn Earworm activity continues to slowly decline, but numbers remain elevated in several of our blacklight traps. They probably will maintain high enough populations to justify a 3 day… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist; owensd@udel.edu Sweet Corn Trap captures are mostly steady this week compared to last week. Most sites should stay on a 3-day spray schedule. If temperatures exceed 82, tighten up spray intervals one day. Trap captures from… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist; owensd@udel.edu Soybeans Continue scouting for stink bugs. We sampled more fields this week in Kent County and still have not found an economic infestation of them, so I suspect their populations are lower this year. Podworm… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Soybean In the latest general insect scouting video, we visited a soybean field in which the farmer planted a pass of forage beans along the edge of a Plenish soybean field. The difference in deer… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Soybean Defoliator populations appear to be quite low. In last week’s scouting video, we were in a field near green stink bug threshold, but the beans were at R2. This week, many fewer of those… Continue Reading
