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Managing Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle Focus of OSU-Hosted Meetings
makes the multicolored Asian lady beetle tick. If successful, the information could provide relief for ... thousands upon thousands of lady beetles in their homes every year, and they say it just gets worse year ... number of lady beetles just keeps growing exponentially. They aren't going to go away any time ...
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Stewart's Bacterial Leaf Blight Predicted Severe This Year
possibility of high flea beetle populations this spring. The insect, a vector of the disease, overwinters and ... temperatures increase the chances of high flea beetle populations, thereby increasing the potential for ... better, there's a high probability that large numbers of overwintering beetles will survive and ...
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Cereal Leaf Beetle is Back in Ohio
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/cereal-leaf-beetle-back-ohio
June 4, 2008 WOOSTER, Ohio-- The cereal leaf beetle, a wheat pest of bygone days, is becoming more ... cereal leaf beetle populations, and how widespread the problem is remains to be seen. "In late April ... and early May, we started hearing reports of a lot more adult cereal leaf beetles than we've seen ...
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Some Ohio Cornfields May Be at Risk for Stewart's Wilt
and spread by adult flea beetles. According to the flea beetle index, southern Ohio may be at moderate ... assess flea beetle survival and disease threat levels. "Despite the assessment, we are advising ... growers to exercise caution when relying solely on the flea beetle index due to the atypical weather ...
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Tour Tomorrow (8/2): Sustainable Ways to Fight Wilt on Melons
a free tour tomorrow (8/2) featuring new, non-chemical, sustainable ways to manage cucumber beetles and ... growers rank the cucumber beetle/bacterial wilt complex as their No. 1 problem,” said Celeste Welty, an ... she noted. Cucumber beetles carry the disease and spread it when they feed on melon plants. While most ...
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Herbicide-Treated Mulches May Provide Good Weed Control
Douglas fir bark. The current project, which began in late June, focuses on mulches typically found in ... Ohio, including pine, palletized recycled paper (PennMulch'), cypress, hardwood, rice hulls and ...
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Ohio State Researchers Conduct Key Studies on Destructive Ash Pest
beetle, which has been found in four northwestern Ohio counties and has an appetite voracious enough to ... years. The beetle, Agrilus planipennis, was discovered for the first time in the United States July 2002 ... area.â A strong flier Herms said a key question that remains unanswered is just how far the beetle will ...
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Southern Ohio Corn May be at Risk for Stewart's Wilt
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/southern-ohio-corn-may-be-risk-stewarts-wilt
and spread by adult flea beetles. Based on the flea beetle index, conducted by Ohio State University ... Extension and Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center specialists this winter, flea beetle ... beetle survival over the winter," said Ron Hammond, an OSU Extension entomologist. "For many ...
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Insect's Sweet Tooth Troublesome for Fruit Growers
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/insects-sweet-tooth-troublesome-fruit-growers
multicolored Asian lady beetle out of their homes, now Ohio fruit growers must contend with another one of the ... documented large numbers of Asian lady beetles feeding on peaches, grapes and apples, but whether the damage ... "Then we started finding large numbers of lady beetles aggregating on damaged and undamaged fruit and ...
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Firewood Quarantine Still in Place in Ohio Despite Ash Borer Regulation Changes
county. However, there’s still a quarantine in place in Ohio that involves not EAB (an exotic beetle that ... Christmas trees; logs, pulpwood, slab-wood and wood-bark chips; outdoor household articles such as ...