Kansas Insect Newsletter 2010
Kansas Insect Newsletter
For Agribusinesses, Applicators,
Consultants and Extension Personnel
| Issue #30, October 29, 2010
Yellow Collared Scape Moth; Time To Be Thinking About The Use Of Dormant Oils; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #29, October 22, 2010
Put Out The Welcome Mat: Here Comes The Asian Lady Beetle!; Hackberry Psyllids Abundant; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #28, October 8, 2010
Carpenters Build With Wood---Carpenterworms Destroy Wood; Parsleyworm or Black Swallowtail Caterpillars; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #27, October 1, 2010
Autumn Home Invaders; Multicolored Asian Lady Beetles; False Chinch Bug Nymphs Worry Homeowners; The Dark Flower Scarab Common This Year; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #26, September 17, 2010
Worms all over my house!; Army Cutworms in Alfalfa and Wheat; The Impact of Horticultural Practices on Insect and Mite Pests; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #25, September 10, 2010
Impact of Pesticides on Natural Enemies: Secondary Pest Outbreak and Target Pest Resurgence; Bagworms and Pine Wilt; A Big Surprise - A Juniper Pest; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #24, September 3, 2010
The Adage: Don't Rush To Judgement...or, Don't Blame Kermes?; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #23, August 27, 2010
Green Cloverworms in Soybeans; Dragons Fly----So Do Dragonflies; Yellownecked Caterpillars; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #22, August 20, 2010
Magnolia Scale; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #21, August 13, 2010
Spider Mites and Soybeans; Corn Earworms on Sorghum and Soybeans; They're well under way---Yellownecked Caterpillars; And What About Walnut Caterpillars? |
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| Issue #20, August 6, 2010
Cicada Killers; Emerald Ash Borer and Thousand Cankers Disease...Welcome to Tennessee!; Insect Update for Alfalfa and Soybeans; Nippers, Laceraters, Jabbers---Insects Put the Bite on People; Deja vu----Crickets; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #19, July 30, 2010
They're such a nuisance---Ground Beetles; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #18, July 23, 2010
Potato Psyllid Update; Sorghum Webworms; Bean Leaf Beetles and Garden Webworms Between Generations; This and That...Yellownecked Caterpillar, Mimosa Webworm, Fall Webworm; Enlisting your help...Striped Blister Beetles; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #17, July 16, 2010
A View From Afar...In Naperville; But Thining of Kansas...Bagworms and Annual White Grubs; Sunflower Moth Migration is Underway; Japanese Beetles in Corn; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #16, July 9, 2010
Idiom #1: "Like Clockwork"...Green June Beetles; Idiom #2: "There must be something in the water"...Horned Oak Gall; The third installment...Walnut and Yellownecked Caterpillars; Cattail Caterpillars in Sorghum; Japanese Beetles in Corn; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #15, July 2, 2010
Twolined Spittlebug...They Are Out-And-About; Corn Earworms; Garden Webworms; Grasshoppers; Rotation-Resistant Corn Rootworms in Kansas?; A Patch of Blue---Walnut Caterpillars, July 1; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #14, KIN June 25, 2010
Picturewinged Flies Common This Year; $$ Corn Rootworm Adults Needed $$; A Hole In One---A golfer's dream versus a gardener's nightmare; And those other "worm" associated with tomatoes?---Hornworms; News Flash! Stop The Press---Walnut & Yellownecked Caterpillars; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #13, June 18, 2010
Slugs...With A Bit of Humor!; Getting Jumpy, Part 1--Grasshoppers; Getting Jumpy, Part 2--Bagworms; Second Round--Nantucket Pine Tip Moths; Those Standing Redheads--That is, Fall Webworms; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #12, June 11, 2010
Bagworms Are Here So Beware!; Twospotted Spider Mite; What Happened to My Honeysuckle Bush?; Garden Webworm in Soybeans; Summer of the 'hoppers?; SQUIRM!--Revisited--Millipedes; The Value of Pheromone Trapping--More on Squash Vine Borers; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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Issue #11, June 4, 2010 Sunflower Stem Weevil; Carpenter Bees; Green Now, But For How Long?...Lace Bugs; Like Clockwork... Rosy Maple Moths Revisited; And Back to the "Old Bucket"...Walnut Caterpillar Moths; Ah the "l'odeur du parfum" - Peach Tree Boreres and Squash Vine Borers; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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Issue #10, May 28, 2010 Time to “Weigh-In” on Oystershell Scale; Army Cutworm Adults (Moths); What’s In the Old Bucket? – Rosy Maple Moths; Off and Running. Crawling, That is...Bagworms; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #9, May 20, 2010
Sowbugs and Pillbugs; Jumping Jehoshaphat! Grasshopper Bait!---Grasshopper Contol?; Chow time --- Tobacco Budworms; White Heads in Wheat (Wheat Stem Maggot vs Hail); Get Grain Storage Facilities Ready for Wheat Harvest; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #8, May 14, 2010
Spirea Aphid; Brown Recluse Spiders; Diagnostic Laboratory Report |
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| Issue #7, May 7, 2010
Euonymus scale; Squash Vine Borer; Potato Leafhopper; Alfalfa Weevil; Clover Mites in Homes; Come and Done! Time flies! What's next!---Eastern Tent Caterpillar & European Pine Sawfly; The Royal Gorge Bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge. The Potato Bridge?---CPB's (Colorado Potato Beetle); Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #6, April 30, 2010
Cereal Aphids in Wheat; Greenbug; Get Those Caterpillar Pests When They Are Young: How To Effectively Use Bacillus thuringiensis spp. kurstaki; Winter Grain Mites in Wheat; "Who'd a thunk it? - What??? -- Carpenterworms; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #5, April 23, 2010
2010 Pest Detector Training; Mysterious Holes in my Lawn (earthworm, ground bees, cicada killers, crayfish, emerging insects); Alfalfa Weevil Update; "Busy Beavers" Moving right along --- Eastern Tent Caterpillars; "They're Ba-a-ack!" Poltergists? No---European Pine Sawflies? Yes; Right On Schedule -- Ash/Lilac Borer; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #4, April 16, 2010
What is that "bug" buzzing around me? It is March Flies!; In the Garden ----Cabbages and "Cabbageworms"; "Pods" -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- Not the case here (TOM/TOB pupa); Termites are swarming; Alfalfa Weevil; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #3, April 9, 2010
"Burn Baby Burn"---Not the Song (pine wilt disease; pine sawyer beetles); "Happy 50th Anniversary"----Nantucket Pine Tip Moths (NPTM); Asian Lady Beetles: Just Let Them Be; Clover Mite: The Intrusive Invader; Alfalfa Weevil. |
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| Issue #2, April 2, 2010
Homeowner Products: Insecticides For Use On Vegetables and Fruits; High Noon - 1871 versus High Noon - March 31, 2010 - A real stretch (Eastern tent caterpillars); Alfalfa Weevils. |
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| Issue #1, March 26, 2010
Insects in 2010---Yes. They will be back! (bagworms, white grubs); Look, up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman!---or Something Else (black cutworm moths, emerald ash borers, maple metallic wood borer, cottonwood or gold dust metallic wood borer); Organic Disease Control (ODC): Is This "Stuff" For Real and How Does It Work?; Indianmeal Moths in Homes; Diagnostic Laboratory Report. |
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| Issue #32, January 12, 2010
FMC Agricultural Products: Furadan Update. |