Late Planted Soys at Risk of Soybean Aphids?

I’ve been pondering our planting situation lately and what impacts it is going to have on some of our key insect pests.   We’ve been anticipating this year to be a good soybean aphid year for Ontario.  It was such an extremely low aphid year last year that natural enemies didn’t build up their populations.  So […]

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Grubs and Slugs and Wireworms…OH MY!

Despite all this rain, pests are still doing quite well out there, as long as they have something to eat.  We had a lot of snow cover this winter which has helped insulate any insects that overwinter and the cool wet soils are helping these soil pests remain active.   Some are just waiting for their […]

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Happy Holidays!

I want to thank my loyal followers for making 2010 such a successful year for the Baute Bug Blog.  I will have some pretty cool information on new pest research and management strategies to share that I recently learned about at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America.  I will write about that […]

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WBC – What We Learned in 2010

I am sure we will be talking about western bean cutworm all winter but there are a few key learnings that we gained in 2010 that I thought I would point out: 1.  The dark bands behind their heads that we use to identify the larvae are not obvious until their last few stages of […]

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