Pheromone Trap Updates – Cutworm and Armyworm We continue to get some good flights of black cutworm with four traps with significant flights this past week. I was able to find some cut plants ...
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Black Cutworms and Armyworms Continue to Arrive The NWNY region has reached the 300-degree days for the flights that came in on April 24, May 1 and May 7 and will hit that mark ...
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Start Scouting for Cutworm Injury in Corn Many counties will hit the 300-degree day mark today, (5/22), and that means the first wave of BCW are big enough to start cutting corn plants. I ...
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Cereal Leaf Beetle Eggs have Hatched Found the first CLB larvae in wheat on Tuesday. Larvae are shiny and black and almost look slug-like. They cover themselves in their own excrement and are pale ...
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Black Cutworms Continue to Arrive Cutworm moths continue to fly into our region this week. Traps in Castile and Spencerport caught 50 and 55 moths. The storm on Monday was a million-dollar rain for ...
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Black Cutworms Continue to Arrive Much of the NWNY region has reached the 300 degree days for the first significant cutworm flight on May 3rd to be large enough to completely cut corn plants. ...
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Black Cutworms Cutting Plants By this weekend much of the region will exceed 300 degree days since May 3. However, I’m already receiving reports and picture confirmations of corn injury from BCW feeding from ...
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Cereal Leaf Beetle Eggs Have Hatched Found the first CLB larvae in wheat on Monday. Larvae are shiny and black and almost look slug-like. They cover themselves in their own excrement and are actually ...
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Cereal Leaf Beetles are Abundant and Laying Eggs in Wheat Cereal leaf beetles (CLB) were easy to find in the wheat I scouted in Ontario and Livingston Counties this week. One field had a ...
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Triticale Harvest Time! Now is the time to check the growth stage of your winter triticale. Many fields will be ready to harvest this week. Triticale should be harvested at Feekes stage 9 for optimal ...
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