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  1. OSU Expert: Warm Winter May Bring Early Insects, But Effect on Field Crops Depends More on Weather and Growers’ Planting Dates

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/osu-expert-warm-winter-may-bring-early-insects-effect-field-crops-depends-more-weather

    depends more on the stage of crop development and growth, Hammond said.   “If insects arrive in fields ... will cause some insects to appear earlier than normal, whether or not the bugs will impact field crops ... negatively depends more on the weather in spring, the variety of insect, and how early or late farmers decide ...

  2. Managing Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle Focus of OSU-Hosted Meetings

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    the same house or is there something about the smell of dead lady beetles or insect feces that keeps ... that there are woods present seems to be an important factor in lady beetle migration. The insect is an ... makes the multicolored Asian lady beetle tick. If successful, the information could provide relief for ...

  3. Learn Your Bugs: Beneficial Insects Can Help Control Garden Pests

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    insect pests than the adult stage. And it's the larval stage that people know the least about since ... gamut from ground beetles to parasitic wasps. Probably the best-known predacious insect is the ladybug, ... insects, also referred to as beneficials, can make quite a meal of garden pests as long as they are ...

  4. OSU Expert: Warm Winter Brings Severe Threat of Corn Flea Beetle and Increased Potential for Stewart’s Bacterial Wilt

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/osu-expert-warm-winter-brings-severe-threat-corn-flea-beetle-and-increased-potential

    Insects such as the corn flea beetle, which targets corn through the spread of the bacterium that causes ... fields this spring for corn flea beetle as the near-record warm winter Ohio has experienced this year is ... Development Center. Adult beetles that overwinter become active in the spring when the soil temperature ...

  5. Keep an Eye on Pest Pressures on Field Crops

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    Extension entomologist. "Plants can take a lot when it comes to insect defoliation in the early stages ... "The cereal leaf beetle will attack wheat in the flag leaf emergence stage long before the true ... their fields and scout for insects and other pests," said Ron Hammond, an Ohio State University ...

  6. Dry Weather Could Aggravate Insect Damage on Crops

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    thresholds of insects might be lower than usual. "Injury from insects can make problems even worse for ... lowered to help protect the crop," said Hammond. "A good example is the potato leafhopper on ... alfalfa. "The rule of thumb in determining potato leafhopper thresholds is, if out of a 10-sweep ...

  7. Ohio State University Recruits Citizens to Count Lady Beetles

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    Of the introduced species, the best known is the multi-colored Asian lady beetle, which is notorious ... Ohio. Ohio's native lady beetle populations are more numerous, varying widely in body shape, color ... that so much effort is being put into conserving lady beetles because they are beneficial insects that ...

  8. Asian Longhorned Beetle Find Means More Bad News for Ohio's Forests, Tree Industries

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/asian-longhorned-beetle-find-means-more-bad-news-ohios-forests-tree-industries

    June 21, 2011 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- The first discovery of Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) infesting ... scientists.   A wood-boring insect from China first identified in the United States in New York City in 1996, ... While the emerald ash borer (EAB)--another invasive beetle that hitchhiked its way to North America from ...

  9. Keep in Mind Insect Pests When Planting Soybeans

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    they especially need to keep in mind two insect pests this growing season. The soybean aphid and bean ... leaf beetle are problematic for soybean growers and can cause economic losses either from feeding or ... scout their fields for the presence of the insects as the growing season wears on and take appropriate ...

  10. Late Planted Soybeans Mean Aphids in August

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/late-planted-soybeans-mean-aphids-august

    should see aphid activity.” Hammond said the corn crop has reached the stage where insect damage is not ... or bean leaf beetle feeding. “Growers should scout their fields and take those insect counts so they ... speaking. “We’re just hitting the late R4, or early R5 stages of soybean development, and we now have ...

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