Several plants at our remaining on-farm site have small populations of aphids this week. While only one plant met the requirements to be considered infested, we saw two plants in the standard field and three plants in the IPM field that had small populations. Aside from the aphids, we only saw flea beetles across all other stops. Both fields maintained low populations of flea beetles, however there were more signs of damage this week relative to last week. It is important to consider that although we saw no worms of any kind, we do still see the signs of old feeding damage. Similarly, even though we did see more flea beetle damage, it is difficult to relate that feeding damage to field scale population size over time.
Piedmont 2
Scouting Report, Piedmont 2 – Grower Standard Field
