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Got a call this winter about poor performance of seed treatments from wireworms. Had to come see for myself this spring and they were not hard to find

The southern corn billbug, a weevil that damages corn crops in North Carolina, has the potential to become a damaging pest over a larger geographic range. 🔗 Southern Corn Billbug: Scourge to Corn in Eastern North Carolina entomologytoday.org/2025/04/24/sou…

Crop loss calculator updated with latest data at loss.cropprotectionnetwork.org In 2024, farmers in the U.S. and Canada experienced estimated losses of: ✅$4.2 billion from corn disease ✅$2.6 billion from soybean disease ✅$2.7 billion from corn insect pests ✅$1.9 billion from wheat

UPDATE - Thrips Infestation Predictor for Cotton is now working --> cotton.ces.ncsu.edu/2025/04/update… Guy Collins Charlie Cahoon

How to nail 2025 thrips management in cotton --> bit.ly/42x60Xx Guy Collins Charlie Cahoon

Had to say goodbye to an excellent @ncsu_depp MS student Igor Schardong. He is moving on to enroll in a PhD program Clemson University. He received his BS from UFSM - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. We will miss him

Interns André Corso UFSM - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria student and Conrado Freire FCSV-UNESP successfully used a Davis inoculator. This allowed them to infest #bollworm in a greenhouse NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

Insecticide seed treatments doing their thing in corn. Killing southern corn billbug

Latest news on cotton.ces.ncsu.edu from Charlie Cahoon: cotton.ces.ncsu.edu/2025/05/potent… Keith Edmisten Dominic Reisig Daisy Ahumada NC State Extension NC State Crop & Soil Sciences

Swept up some #bollworm looking for stink bugs in wheat. Rare but I do see them sometimes this early in wheat and corn. Guessing these are southern migrants

We flagged about 4,000 non-Bt seeds today investigating how Bt changes #bollworm mating behavior. NIFA funded project could upend how we estimate the speed of Bt resistance, saving growers $$$

Thrips applications, insecticide choice, and rainfall in cotton --> bit.ly/4jkZDf6 Keith Edmisten Guy Collins Charlie Cahoon

It was cool to see this monarch in a wheat field today. There were still #bollworm larvae there!

Insecticide recommendations for tarnished plant bug --> bit.ly/45Zf1dZ Guy Collins Charlie Cahoon Keith Edmisten North Carolina Cotton Producers Association

Bt corn and refuge: smart planting for long-term success --> bit.ly/4ekEYXF By NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology graduate student alexis middleton alsdorf

Important change to North Carolina soybean defoliation thresholds after beginning flowering (R1) --> bit.ly/4n5MwBv NC State Soybean Extension Jeff Chandler

Soybean looper defoliation guide --> bit.ly/466I7bn NC State Soybean Extension Jeff Chandler

Green bean harvest is in full swing here in eastern NC

Fall armyworm love vegetative stage corn. I’ve found larvae in eastern NC as early as May, but they are more common as the season progresses

Our first year working with peanut insects and we are having a blast! This trial spans the North Carolina Virginia border. Not gonna lie. I sat in the truck while the students braved the rain NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology