Insects

The free BeeConnected app helps to ensure that bees and agriculture can co-exist and thrive. The application allows farmers to tell beekeepers in their

By planting a Buzzing Garden, we can all help to improve the number and quality of honey bee food sources, and support them in

AAFC has published a new cutworm guide, available as a free download, with descriptions of all pest cutworms in Canada as well as helpful

The Canola Council of Canada has a new video describing swede midge, its life cycle and the damage it can cause canola crops in

Distorted canola growth thought to be from swede midge (Contarinia nasturtii) is likely caused by a separate midge species (Contarinia brassicola). Scientists were suspicious

Results from the disease survey show increases in sclerotinia stem rot incidence. Blackleg incidence is down from 2015 in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and up

While economic levels of damage have not been reported anywhere yet this year, individual fields could experience isolated high numbers.

In dry conditions: Threshold tables for lygus indicate that if canola is $12 per bushel and spray costs $8 per acre, the threshold at

Pod-eating insects — including bertha armyworm, lygus and diamondback moth larvae — are at low levels in general in 2016. The biggest factors regulating

Three thrips species will feed on canola in Canada and only one — western flower thrips, (Frankliniella occidentalis) — causes pod curling.

You may find quite menagerie of insects in your net after 10 sweeps. Can you correctly identify these five?

Lygus have piercing, sucking mouth parts, which they use to pierce pods and drain immature seeds. This is where the major yield loss occurs