Alberta Agriculture & Forestry Staff coordinate this wheat midge surveying in Alberta. Our soil cores were forwarded to Alberta Agriculture & Forestry's Shelley Barkley for processing. The complete summary of the results for the 2016 forecast map are posted to the Alberta Insect Pest Monitoring Network's website and was prepared by Scott Meers (Alberta Insect Management Specialist with Alberta Agriculture & Forestry).
CAUTIONS: The 2016 forecast map does NOT replace in-field monitoring and growers are strongly cautioned against relying solely on this map to make pest management decisions! Field scouting in wheat fields during midge emergence is the best way to assess wheat midge risk!
Acknowledgements: David Giffen (AAFC-Saskatoon) created the above map and the following list of cooperators have been recognized for their efforts in sampling all of the above data points:
Battle River Research Group | Chinook Applied Research Association | |
Farming Smarter | Lakeland Applied Research Association | |
Mackenzie Applied Research Association | Northern Peace Applied Research Association | |
Smoky Applied Research and Demonstration Association | Mountain View County | |
Parkland County | County of Two Hills | |
County of Grande Prairie | MD Wainwright | |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge | Alberta Agriculture & Forestry technical staff |