Insect Spotlight: Long-legged flies September 5, 2024 - From Issue: 744 By: Laura Ingwell Read More This year, we really want to familiarize our readers with beneficial flies! After learning about syrphids, blow flies, and predatory gall midges, we are going to end the season on[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Spotlight
Insect Spotlight: Lasioglossum Sweat Bees August 23, 2024 - From Issue: 743 By: Robert Grosdidier and Laura Ingwell Read More Lasioglossum sweat bees are common pollinators in agricultural landscapes. These bees are small black, brown, or iridescent green/blue bees that belong to the family Halictidae. They can often be mistaken[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Insect and Mite Management Spotlight
Weed Sptolight: Common Ragweed August 23, 2024 - From Issue: 743 By: Stephen Meyers Read More Common names: Common ragweed, annual ragweed, hogweed, hay-fever weed, Roman wormweed, and bitterweed. Latin name: Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. “Ambrosia” is from Greek mythology and refers to the food or drink[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Spotlight Weed Management
Weed Spotlight: Common Purslane August 7, 2024 - From Issue: 742 By: Celia Corado and Stephen Meyers Read More Common names: purslane, pusley, pursley, wild portulaca, common portulaca, little hooweed, low pigweed Latin name: Portulaca oleracea L. Family: Portulacaceae (Purslane family) Life Cycle Common purslane is a summer annual[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Spotlight Weed Management
Insect Spotlight: The Spined Stilt Bug August 6, 2024 - From Issue: 742 By: Tucker Cade LaRue and Laura Ingwell Read More Description Spined stilt bugs are small, slender insects in the family Berytidae. Typically brown or bronze in color, these insects have slim bodies with long and thin legs (Figure 1).[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Spotlight
Weed Spotlight: Ground Ivy July 24, 2024 - From Issue: 741 By: Helen Angelina Nocito and Stephen Meyers Read More Common names: Ground ivy, gill-over-the-ground, creeping Charlie, field balm, haymaids, cat’s foot, alehoffs Latin name: Glechoma hederacea L. Family: Lamiaceae (Mint Family) General Description and Identification Ground ivy is a[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Spotlight Weed Management
Weed Spotlight: Yellow Nutsedge July 11, 2024 - From Issue: 740 By: Josue Cerritos and Stephen Meyers Read More Common names: Yellow nutsedge, yellow nutgrass, nut sedge, chufa, earth almond, northern nutgrass Latin names: Cyperus esculentus L. Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge family) General Description Perennial sedges are among the most[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Spotlight Weed Management
Insect Spotlight: Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae) June 28, 2024 - From Issue: 739 By: Sydney Territo and Laura Ingwell Read More Cabbage white butterflies are medium-sized white butterflies in the family Pieridae. They have black spots on their wings, and a black band on the top of their forewings (top wings),[Read More…] Article Categories: Cole Crops Article Tags: Insect and Mite Management Spotlight
Weed spotlight: Carpetweed June 28, 2024 - From Issue: 739 By: Josue Cerritos and Stephen Meyers Read More Common names: Carpetweed, Indian chickweed, whorled chickweed, devils-grip, green carpetweed Latin name: Mollugo verticillata L. Family: Molluginaceae General Description and Life Cycle Carpetweed is a summer annual. Compared to other[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Spotlight Weed Management
Weed Spotlight: Common Milkweed June 14, 2024 - From Issue: 738 By: Carlos Lopez and Stephen Meyers Read More Common names Common milkweed, silkweed, cotton-weed, Virginia silk, wild cotton, silky milkweed, common silkweed, showy milkweed, swallow wort. Latin name Asclepias syriaca. “Asclepias” from Asklepios, the Ancient Greek god of[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Spotlight Weed Management
