Insects

See bare patches like this? Could be cutworms. Include cutworms on the scouting checklist for the first one to three weeks after emergence. Any

Test your cutworm knowledge with these four questions, including a “dry soils” angle.

Of particular interest are those trajectories that, prior to their arrival in Canada, originated over northwestern and southern USA and Mexico – anywhere diamondback

Synthetic pyrethroids (Decis, Matador/Silencer, for examples) benefit from late-day spraying because they should be applied when temperatures are below 25°C.

Test your flea beetle knowledge with these five questions.

Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be doing bertha armyworm and diamondback moth surveys again in 2018. To put up a trap and help with

Prairie Pest Monitoring Network (PPMN) regional maps for insect pests affecting canola are provided in this article.

A reader from southeast of Saskatoon emailed this question: I had a field with bertha armyworms on the perimeter in 2017. Numbers were not

The Field Heroes website shows how natural enemies can help manage insect pest populations. Scouting is still necessary because beneficial insects do not always

With each canola seed decision, growers face this question: Would a seed treatment upgrade to improve management of flea beetles and cutworms provide a

A heavily-infested field in western Manitoba (south of Riding Mountain National Park) generated a lot of interest on Twitter in the past week. It

Test your diamondback management skills with these four questions…