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Project Leader: Abby Seaman, Area Extension Educator, Vegetable
IPM
Cooperators: Adam Abers, Kennedy, NY; Bruce Bozard, Medina,
NY; Brian Boerman and Mark Avery, Agricultural Consulting Services;
George Dobson, UAP; Alan Erb, Arlie McFaul, and Christy Hoepting, Lake
Plains Vegetable Program; Tyrone Hall, South Central NY Agriculture
Program; Julie Kikkert and John Gibbons, Ontario, Yates, Wayne and Steuben
Vegetable Program; Jeff Kubecka, Kirkville, NY; Don Sweet, Crop Advantage.
Type of grant: Monitoring, forecasting, and economic thresholds
Project locations: 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, cause damage to ears in their "worm"
or larval stage. These pests are moths in their adult stage. 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
ten seasons. The trap network allows growers, consultants, 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 is funded in part by the processing sweet corn industry
and in-kind contributions from growers and consultants.
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