Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Statewide Cotton Insect situation

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We have reached the point in the season that it is difficult to generalize about the cotton insect situation statewide. Some fields have bee...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Stink bugs and plant bugs

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Cotton- A heavy bollworm moth flight has been ongoing this week (July 19-23) in the Florida Panhandle and areas of south Alabama. Small lar...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Red Banded Stink Bug in Alabama Feeding on Soybeans

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Another significant insect event this week was the discovery of the red banded stink bug (Piezodorus sp.) feeding on soybeans in Baldwin Cou...

Stink bugs, tarnished plant bugs and "worms" in cotton

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My cotton insect observations this week were as follows: many fields have a number of immature (late instar, soon to be adult) tarnished pla...

Redbanded stink bugs

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On Tuesday, I surveyed some soybeans at our Gulf Coast Research Station at Fairhope, and I’m 99% sure that I found red banded stink bugs the...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Aphids and bug complex building, fall armyworms in second generation in pastures, fleahoppers appear

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We’re getting more reports of aphids building in cotton. They’ve been slow to increase but still have reached treatable levels in some field...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Insect Complex Developing

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Several fields were surveyed yesterday (7/6/2010) in central Alabama. My findings were as follows: aphids continue to be low to non-detectab...