It’s Japanese beetle season and that means damage to crops.
But the University of Missouri is moving forward with its research on
insecticide impregnated nets as an alternative to broad spectrum insecticides.
MU entomologist Kevin Rice says a graduate student is conducting tests where the nets are set up on the outside borders of field crops, “Then we hang the Japanese beetle lures on them. So these
are very attractive to Japanese beetles but they don’t attract other insects.
Continue reading Alternative to spraying for Japanese beetle management at Brownfield Ag News.
