Updates from June 20, 2014
- Several more reports from diverse areas of the state about adult
plant bugs at damaging levels in pin head square and older cotton.
- Plant bugs continue to increase on wild host plants on roadsides
and field borders. Both dark (old) adults and immatures present in SE AL.
- Tobacco Budworms foliage feeding on peanuts near Enterprise, AL.
Newer chemistry (Belt, Blackhawk, Steward) will be necessary for control.
- Fall armyworm (likely grass strain) feeding on peanuts in southwest
AL. Pyrethroids will give excellent control.
- Snails in abundant numbers observed on cotton from Walnut Hill, FL
to Columbus, MS. No controls suggested but net sampling for plant bugs
difficult.
