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Category: Cabbage Seed Pod Weevil

The Agronomists, Ep 159: Grasshoppers, leaf chewers, and weevils with James Tansey and Tyler Wist

Jun 25, 2024 Jul 25, 2024 by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team

Grasshoppers devastated many fields last year over large parts of the Prairies. Of the over 80 species of grasshoppers found on the Prairies, only four are pests — but in sufficient numbers they are a huge concern. After several years of building populations, the pest is still likely to be an issue this year but... Read More

The Agronomists, Ep 90: John Gavloski and James Tansey on lesser-known and up-and-coming pests

Nov 15, 2022 Nov 16, 2022 by RealAgriculture News Team

There are so many insects in the world that most of them likely haven't been described yet. From some of the more common insects, such as the flea beetle, to a lesser-known such as a the beet webworm, this episode of The Agronomists tackles as much as we can in an hours' time. Host Lyndsey... Read More

Canola School: Sweep well ahead of deciding to spray for cabbage seed pod weevil

Jul 4, 2022 Jul 4, 2022 by Kara Oosterhuis

By early July, many canola fields across the Prairies are in the beginning stages of bolting. According to Héctor Cárcamo, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at Lethbridge, Alta., that's a great time to start thinking about the cabbage seed pod weevil. Before worrying about thresholds and spray timing for the insect pest that... Read More

Canola School: Sweeping and scouting for cabbage seedpod weevil

Jul 13, 2021 Jul 13, 2021 by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team

Cabbage seedpod weevil can cause considerable yield loss to a canola and other brassica crops, such as mustard. As adults, the pest is three to four millimetres in length, is ash-grey in colour, and has a prominent curved snout, similar to other weevils. Meghan Vankosky, field crop entomologist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Saskatoon, joins... Read More

An insect RealAg LIVE! with Scott Meers: Hungry flea beetles, early diamondback moth, and weevils

Jun 2, 2020 May 11, 2022 by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team

What's bugging your crop? (See what we did there?) Scott Meers, independent agronomist and founder of Mayland Ag Consulting joins RealAg LIVE! host Shaun Haney for an informative and fun chat all about counting bugs. Well, not really. Also not all insects are bugs. Scott would want us to say that. Check out the video... Read More

Pests & Predators, Ep 2: An inside look at the Prairie Pest Monitoring Network

May 26, 2020 May 19, 2022 by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team

We're back with the latest episode of Pests & Predators, and on this episode, you'll hear from Dr. Meghan Vankosky. She is a research scientist in the field crop entomology department with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), based in Saskatoon, Sask. In addition to the research Vankosky does for AAFC, she is also the co-chair... Read More

Canola School: A surprising mid-season pest update

Jul 17, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team

Some pests like it dry, some like it warm, and some need it windy to get where they want to go. And sometimes insect pests can surprise you and not nearly be as bad as anticipated. That's the story of the summer of 2018 — so far — according to Alberta Agriculture insect specialist, Scott... Read More

Canola School: The Rundown on Lygus Bugs and Cabbage Seedpod Weevils

Jun 21, 2016 May 19, 2022 by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team

While most canola producers in western Canada are still keeping an eye out for wireworms and cutworms, there are more reasons to scout on the horizon. Those reasons? Cabbage seedpod weevils and lygus bugs. For each species, there are a series of factors that might influence the susceptibility of a given canola crop to infestation.... Read More

Canola School: Cabbage Seedpod Weevil Spreading Its Wings in the West

Jul 3, 2015 Apr 20, 2018 by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team

It should come as no surprise to insect geeks that the ash-grey insect above with a rather distracting snout is a weevil. More specifically, it's a cabbage seedpod weevil (Ceutorhynchus obstrictus), an insect pest that has been infecting canola crops (and other Brassicaceae species) in Alberta since the mid-1990s, and it has since moved across... Read More

Dr. Lloyd Dosdall - The Passing of a Truly Great Professor and Researcher

Jun 12, 2014 Jun 12, 2014 by Shaun Haney

With great sadness I found out this morning that Dr. Lloyd Dosdall has passed away after a long battle with cancer. See Dr. Dosdall's bio on the University of Alberta's website I remember back in July 2010 when I first met Dr. Lloyd Dosdall. It was at the Farming Smarter site on the east side... Read More

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