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Facts & Information on Wheat Pests

YOUR GUIDE FOR Wheat INSECT PEST MANAGEMENT

From perennial to occasional pests, we guide you through best practices to manage against your crop's insect pests.

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Links to other relevant KSRE publications:

  • Wheat Variety Disease and Insect Ratings
  • Wheat Stem Sawfly
  • Hessian Fly
  • Greenbug
  • Identifying Caterpillars in Wheat (1999)
  • Russian Wheat Aphid
  • Biological Control of Insect Pests on Field Crops in Kansas

Below Ground Pests

  • False Wireworms
  • White Grubs
  • Wireworms

Fall and Winter Pests

Aphids
  • Bird Cherry-Oat Aphid
  • English Grain Aphid
  • Greenbug
  • Russian Wheat Aphid
Mites
  • Banks Grass Mite
  • Wheat Curl Mite
Worms
  • Army Cutworm
  • Fall Armyworm
  • Pale Western Cutworm
Miscellaneous Pests
  • Flea Beetles
  • Grasshoppers
  • Hessian Fly

Late Spring Pests

  • Aphids
  • Armyworm
  • Brown Wheat Mite
  • Wheat Head Armyworm
  • Wheat Stem Maggot
  • Wheat Stem Sawfly
  • Winter Grain Mite

Wheat Insect management

General Comments on Wheat Insect Management

Department of Entomology

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1603 Old Claflin Place, Manhattan, KS 66506-4004

785-532-6154 | 785-532-6232 fax | entomology@k-state.edu

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