Tag: aphids

Preventing and Treating Flea Beetles and Aphids on Canola and Sugar Beets with Nutrition Management

In this webinar John Kempf will describe how to manage plant nutrition to produce crops that are completely resistant to aphids and flea beetles.

John Kempf January 28, 2021

[Link] Blog 38. Creating Habitat for Beneficials to Control Aphids in Pecans

he major pests of pecans in California orchards are the yellow pecan aphid and the black margined pecan aphid. The yellow pecan aphid is the more beni…

KindHarvest Team November 20, 2020

[Link] Push to early sowing could see more crop viruses

Early sowing has been one of the main drivers of increased yield in recent years but it also means a higher risk of crop viruses.

KindHarvest Team November 16, 2020

How to Propagate Aphids

It is important to propagate aphids in our fields so the beneficial insects such as lady beetles have something to feed on. It is quite…

John Kempf December 18, 2019

Insect susceptibility determined by types of plant sugars

Sugar metabolism and carbohydrate synthesis are at the very foundation of plant health, but we generally don’t learn much about them in agronomy or even…

John Kempf December 7, 2019