Kudzu Bug Seedling Soybean Spray (Threshold) Recommendations
Kudzu bug activity has heightened with the warm weather in the past two weeks. Adults are flying from overwintering sites and searching for their reproductive hosts, wisteria, kudzu and soybeans. In...
View ArticleThinking Ahead to Corn Earworm Management in Soybeans
As distributors begin to stock up insecticide inventory for the season, it is a good time to lay out a management strategy for corn earworm control in soybeans. This has been our most consistent...
View ArticleKudzu Bug Soybean Scouting and Treatment Update
There are a number of things I would like to address with this article. 1) Where we are in the life cycle and how this might impact your management efforts; 2) best known scouting procedures; and 3)...
View ArticleScouting Kudzu Bug
Post by Dominic Reisig, with sampling information from Alejandro Del Pozo-Valdiva, NCSU Dept. of Entomology PhD student. I’ve received many calls about the presence of nymphs in soybeans that are not...
View ArticleKudzu Bug Threshold in Practice
Perhaps you are one of the unfortunate ones dealing with kudzu bug in your full-season soybeans. Many fields are near threshold- one nymph per “swoosh of the net”- but look like they will not really...
View ArticleKudzu Bug Migration is Nearing Peak
In southern NC, we should reach peak migration of adults into soybeans this week. Some fields have already reached one nymph per sweep, with population densities so large that they will require a...
View ArticleShould You Spray Insecticide Over Flowering Beans?
The short answer to the question should you spray and insecticide over flowering soybeans is no. You should only spray if you’ve reached 15% defoliation throughout the canopy or are at one kudzu bug...
View ArticleSoybean Loopers are Here- When and What to Spray
Soybean loopers are a migratory pest that we sometimes see in soybeans late in the season. Numbers really picked up in our research plots in the Sandhills region of the state and we’ve picked up more...
View ArticleNew Kudzu Bug Insecticide Information
Here are some initial results of a recent screening trial. To my knowledge, DoubleTake (diflubenzuron + lambda-cyhalothrin), Justice (acetamiprid + bifenthrin), Cobalt Advanced (chlorpyrifos +...
View ArticleFinishing Up the Season with Kudzu Bugs
Kudzu bug populations are all over the place right now in terms of how they are developing. Believe it or not, this second generation was not as bad as I had predicted (the first generation was...
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