2015 Lygus Caging Study

Back in June, we were busy preparing the Lygus Caging Study.  Our plants had grown to the late rosette stage so the cages needed to go up in order for us to examine the effect of 20 Lygus adults feeding on canola from bolting to harvest.  Click on the link below to view a video of how our great staff prepared our field plots!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_1NQ60rRZGTTzZQMVVocHU4Nms/view?usp=sharing

Weekly Updates for 2015

The Prairie Pest Monitoring Network's final Weekly Update has been posted to: http://prairiepestmonitoring.blogspot.ca/

Good luck to our growers and thank you to the many people who contributed to monitoring in field crops across the prairies this season!

This Week at the Farm (Sept 2, 2015)

This week the IPM Program retracted down to permanent employees with the departure of our summer students.  Both the CARP Flea Beetle and ACIDF Lygus Caging field plot studies are still in the field ripening and the Wheat Midge Soil core sampling will begin once local wheat fields are combined.

We wish our students good luck with their Fall studies and thank them again for their many contributions.  

2015 IPM Program's Staff including (L to R) Jennifer, Holly, Jadin,
Kaitlin, Amanda, Shelby, and Andras.