• By Mary Hightower •
Arkansas rice growers battling yet another insect pest in their crops have until Aug. 28 to use Endigo ZC, after the Environmental Protection Agency issued a Section 18 exemption Aug. 13.
Endigo is currently labeled for...
Dr. Greg Sword, Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology professor, has received $499,000 to determine fall armyworm behaviors and genomic traits that could aid in controlling the agricultural pests.
The three-year project funded by the...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to separate Section 18 Emergency Crisis Exemptions for Intrepid 2F insect growth regulator for use on fall armyworms in Arkansas and Mississippi rice.
The action comes after pyrethroids, which...
Cooler temperatures and widespread rain events across Texas have forage and crop producers scrambling to fight armyworms, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Dr. Vanessa Corriher-Olson, AgriLife Extension forage specialist, Overton, said inquiries about the pest have...
• By Mary Hightower •
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture entomologists are seeking an emergency exemption to allow for the use of Intrepid to help control armyworms that threaten the state’s 1.24 million acres of rice.
“This is the...
• By Nick Bateman, Gus Lorenz and Ben Thrash •
Armyworm calls have picked up big time this week. A majority of the fields with armyworms in them is row rice at various stage, spanning from early tiller all the...
• By Adam Russell •
Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists have declared war on the fall armyworm.
Dr. Greg Sword, Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology professor, has received $499,000 to determine fall armyworm behaviors and...
A Texas A&M University graduate student received a research grant to better identify, understand and ultimately mitigate fall armyworm populations in Texas and the central United States.
Ashley Tessnow, a doctoral candidate in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and...
Research finds rice can take more armyworm defoliation than previously thought without yield loss.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
After two years of field and greenhouse studies, University of Arkansas entomologists say they feel confident about recommending against treating most fall...
Severe defoliation in rice from a large flight of fall armyworms in 2016 led researchers with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture to develop a new defoliation threshold, said Nick Bateman, assistant professor and crop entomologist.
It is...
Armyworms can be a serious pest in rice as the larvae can eat the rice leaves or panicles and cause yield reductions.
In 2015, a severe outbreak of armyworms caught California rice growers by surprise, resulting in yield losses. In...
The hot, dry conditions of 2018 were the poster child for difficulty establishing a timely flood to incorporate nitrogen (N) fertilizer. To achieve consistently high yields, timely application and incorporation of preflood N is the most critical input in...
Fall armyworms, a common pest of soybeans, pastures and lawns, have developed a taste for rice, and Extension entomologists are working on management methods to help producers.
Gus Lorenz and Nick Bateman, Extension entomologists with the University of Arkansas, say...
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The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has granted a section 18 emergency use exemption for Intrepid 2F insecticide from...
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