Tag: pests
Mobile app puts pest and plant disease information right in your...
IPMPro will streamline pest management decision-making and employee training and will make complying with state pesticide recordkeeping regulations easy.
Over-the-counter foggers ineffective against bedbugs, researchers say
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State University entomologists have found that over-the-counter foggers or "bug bombs" commonly used by consumers are not effective at killing...
Wheat growers advised to scout for stripe rust; still time to...
COLUMBUS -- While most wheat statewide is at the early grain fill stage of development, growers should still scout carefully for stripe rust, as...
Scout your fields now for slugs
The warm winter caused many slugs to begin attacking Ohio crops earlier than normal, this year. Be prepared.
Warm winter increases field crop insect and pest threat in Ohio
In Ohio, black cutworms also could be a bigger problem this year, as could slugs, bean leaf beetles and cereal leaf beetles.
Weed scientists warn of aggressive spread of hydrilla, spotted in N.Y.
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Six months ago one of the world's most aggressive aquatic weeds was spotted in an inlet adjoining Cayuga Lake, part of...
Insects, weeds could be challenges after record-setting mild winter
The snow and ice nearly skipped us, and that could spell success -- or distress -- in the fields.
Integrated weed management best response to herbicide resistance
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Over-reliance on glyphosate-type herbicides for weed control on U.S. farms has created a dramatic increase in the number of genetically...
Pesticide-resistant weeds threaten Pa.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The challenge of weeds that have become resistant to glyphosate -- the active ingredient in Round-Up herbicide -- has become an evolving national threat, with new challenges emerging and spreading annually.
Diversity key to herbicide weed management, fighting resistance
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Weed resistance to herbicides has been a concern among crop farmers since about 1998, but the fact that it's no longer...
