Tracey Baute April 30, 2019 3650 Comments Off on Welcome to the Great Lakes and Maritimes Pest Monitoring NetworkWelcome Trappers! The WBC Trap Network has been such a success, we have expanded it to include additional pests and new states and provinces for 2019. We have also moved the network information from the Canadian Corn Pest Coalition website to Field Crop News until a permanent home is created. The new Great Lakes and Maritimes Pest Monitoring Network will…
It’s time to get out and scout for WBC damage in dry beans. Based on trap counts we are now confident that some counties experienced peak flight the last week of July and others the first week of August. Though I will admit that some trap sites are still catching lots of moths, especially the bean trap sites. And the…
I am still hearing from people who are looking for WBC egg masses on corn leaves. But unless they are scouting very late corn that is not in tassel yet, most of the WBC will already be larvae on the tassel or more likely in the ear. So focus on scouting the ears and tassels now. But there are other…