Day: February 12, 2021

2019-2020 Annual Report: Cereal Leaf Beetle meets Biocontrol

Cereal leaf beetle (CLB), a significant pest of wheat and barley, is typically controlled with insecticides. Timely scouting of CLB populations and spraying according to economic thresholds is an important IPM approach. Significant control could be possible with the use of a natural predator, the CLB larval parasitoid wasp, Tetrastichus julis. In Washington State, this…Continue Reading 2019-2020 Annual Report: Cereal Leaf Beetle meets Biocontrol