Five questions on flea beetles – including their characteristics and management steps. Get detailed agronomy information with the answers…
Flea beetle
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Hot temperatures can reduce the effectiveness of pest management applications. This article looks at performance of canola herbicides for weed control and insecticides for flea beetle control…
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Replace those worn openers / Why wait to seed canola? / Pre-seed banding leaves dry seed bed / Spray weeds two weeks before seeding. Really?!…
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Numbers for August-emerging flea beetles have to be very high — perhaps 100 per plant — before economic losses occur. Some patches might be that high… -
Trap counts are showing higher numbers of diamondback moths in a few areas, but this just means that the moths have arrived, and is not necessarily a cause for concern. Flea beetle scouting is more important this week… -
The action threshold for flea beetles in canola crops in Canada is an average leaf area loss of 25 per cent or more. How do you make that assessment?… -
from the perspectives of herbicide uptake, efficacy and label requirements, night spraying is OK as long as weeds are not under any stress and are growing actively going into the evening… -
Four questions that will help with your approach to flea beetle scouting and risk assessment… -
Cutworm feeding results in notched, wilted, dead or cut-off plants. Patches of missing plants could also be cutworms. Include cutworms on the scouting checklist for the first one to three weeks after emergence…
