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Project Leader: Abby Seaman, Area Extension
Educator, Vegetable IPM
Cooperators: Bruce Bozard, Medina, NY;
Brian Caldwell, Tioga Co. Cooperative Extension; Brian Boerman and Dick Dale,
Agricultural Consulting Services; George Dobson, UAP; Alan Erb, Arlie McFaul,
and Christy Hoepting, Lake Plains Vegetable Program; Julie Kikkert and John
Gibbons, Ontario, Yates, Wayne and Steuben Vegetable Program; Jeff Kubecka,
Kirkville, NY; John Abers, Kennedy, NY; Don Sweet, Crop Advantage.
Type of grant: Monitoring, forecasting,
and economic thresholds
Project location(s): Chautauqua, Erie,
Niagara, Genesee, Orleans, Monroe, Ontario, Wayne, Yates, Tioga, Onondaga, Madison
counties
Abstract: Three of the important insect
pests of sweet corn, European corn borer, corn earworm, and fall armyworm, are
moths in their adult stage and larvae, or "worms", in their immature
stage, when they cause damage to sweet corn. A network of traps baited with
the pheromones that male and female moths use to find each other has been operating
across western New York for the past eight seasons. The trap network allows
growers, consultants, and Cooperative Extension and processing company field
staff to track the flights of the adults of these three pests, and make informed
decisions about when sweet corn fields need to be scouted or treated with an
insecticide. This project was funded in part by the processing sweet corn industry
and in-kind contributions from growers and consultants.
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