I don’t know who needs to hear this, but don’t forget to put down a pre-emerge herbicide this year.

Upstream Ag Salam, please find the unroll here: Shane Thomas: 20 Tips for 2020 Ag Graduates🔥 With new grads coming into the #ag industry this month I thought it… threadreaderapp.com/thread/1246483… Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖

From the Dr. Maya Evenden lab at University of Alberta, pheromone-baited traps with large surface areas and traps baited with a Scotts flex lure optimal for adult ♂️ wheat midge. # of ♀️ midges on yellow sticky cards predicted # of larvae in wheat heads, # of ♂️ did not shorturl.at/HLMU4

With crops coming up, have a look for Peritrechus convivus nymphs seen here on #flax seedlings, and please message me if you find any.

But one thing that wet weather promotes is development of #wheatmidge #abbugchat and adult emergence is in full swing.

Got to spend the day yesterday with Tyler Wist looking for orange blossom wheat midge eggs. Found lots of these field heros, known as Macroglenes penetrans as well. Macroglenes are important natural enemies of the wheat midge.

Bringing in the SMART #wheat one row at a time with Kristy Vavra! #wheatmidge Robert Graf Sask Agriculture Sask Wheat @AlbertaWheat Manitoba Crop Alliance

As much as it may look like a walking piece of popcorn, this is actually a small flatid planthopper nymph, filmed in Ecuador by the late physicist, biologist, and photographer Andreas Kay [more: buff.ly/3nc9Oqa] [video: buff.ly/3naZi2n] [andreaskay.org]

I’ll try to be more active on Twitter by posting updates on my home project with predatory mites (Neoseiulus cucumeris) #thripcontrol

We are looking to recruit an MSc student to study the effects of wetlands and crop type on terrestrial arthropods. If you are interested or know someone who may be, please have them contact Dr. Prager.

I'm excited to announce that Kristy Vavra of Prager Lab will be presenting about our #wheatmidge project with Robert Graf 's SMART #wheat and Pierre Hucl's CDC Teal at #soilscrops 2021. Get registered! Sask Wheat Manitoba Crop Alliance @AlbertaWheat Sask Agriculture

Spring wheat & durum are susceptible to damage from wheat midge. Tolerance is available in varieties with VB in their name, but damage can still occur. Our 2021 wheat midge forecast map is now available. #SaskAg saskatchewan.ca/business/agric…

Teaser for #soilscrops 2021! Come and hear about Hairy-glumed #wheat as a potential #wheatmidge deterrent presented by Kristy Vavra agbio.usask.ca/soilsncrops/in… USask PlantSci Prager Lab

“When we kill a pest’s natural enemies, we inherit their work.” Researchers examine the appetites and economic value of beneficial insects on western Canadian farms: grainswest.com/2021/03/friend… Haley Catton WGRF AAFC Canada

grainswest.com/2021/03/friend… featuring Tyler Wist and an image by our our own Kristy Vavra Field Heroes #entomology

I spy with my little eye... Beastie the Bug

Sask Wheat is producing a new series of information documents for common agronomy issues, called Wheat Watch. The initial Wheat Watch focuses on wheat midge in 2021 and includes scouting and control tips for managing the pest. Download it here: saskwheat.ca/wheat-midge-re…

Now remind me to try and get good videos/ pictures this time around! Thanks Koppert

Found this neat mite on an English grain aphid!

Happy to see Tyler Wist present at the ICPU in Lethbridge, AB on crops doomed by bug violence. Reunited! #bugnerds