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  1. Cereal Leaf Beetle Outbreak on Ohio Wheat

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/cereal-leaf-beetle-outbreak-ohio-wheat

    May 19, 2010 WOOSTER, Ohio – Economic populations of cereal leaf beetle are being found on Ohio ... cereal leaf beetle, both in the southern and central parts of the state, but there is also potential for ... causes widespread problems." The cereal leaf beetle is a wheat pest of bygone days—controlled ...

  2. Southern Ohio Corn at Risk for Stewart's Wilt

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/southern-ohio-corn-risk-stewarts-wilt

    Ohio's mild winter, higher populations of flea beetles (the insect that transmits the bacterium) may have ... beetle survives the winter in the soil and if you get a harsh winter, populations go down. But if you ... Extension appointment. Ohio State specialists use a "flea beetle index"-- the sum of the average ...

  3. Managing Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle Focus of OSU-Hosted Meetings

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/managing-multicolored-asian-lady-beetle-focus-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 ...

  4. Stewart's Bacterial Leaf Blight Predicted Severe This Year

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/stewarts-bacterial-leaf-blight-predicted-severe-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 ...

  5. Tour Tomorrow (8/2): Sustainable Ways to Fight Wilt on Melons

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/tour-tomorrow-82-sustainable-ways-fight-wilt-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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Some Ohio Cornfields May Be at Risk for Stewart's Wilt

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/some-ohio-cornfields-may-be-risk-stewarts-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 ...

  8. 2019

    https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/node/4371

    A Survey of the Genus Pyropyga Luciana Musetti Ellen Dunkle Body Size of Ground Beetles ...

  9. Ohio State Researchers Conduct Key Studies on Destructive Ash Pest

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-state-researchers-conduct-key-studies-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.” A strong flier Herms said a key question that remains unanswered is just how far the beetle will ...

  10. Herbicide-Treated Mulches May Provide Good Weed Control

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/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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