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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2023 National Wheat Contest It is not too late to enter. The deadline registration is May 15. It costs $100 to enter and you must be a member of the National Association Wheat Growers ...
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Tar Spot Identified in Chautauqua County – From Gary Bergstrom “Today (9/7/22), I confirmed the first observation of tar spot in New York in 2022. The occurrence was in southwestern Chautauqua County. This was ...
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Black Cutworms Cutting Plants We are above the 300 degree days needed to get the larvae from the first major flight that on April 27 to a stage where they will cut plants. ...
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Cereal Leaf Beetle Eggs Have Hatched It was very easy to find small Cereal Leaf Beetle (CLB) larvae in wheat fields this week. Larvae are shiny and black and almost look slug-like. They ...
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