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The goal of the North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory (NCARL) is to develop, document, and promote soil, crop, and pest management practices that are ecologically sustainable while maintaining producer profitability.
 Western corn rootworm, adult beetle
 Lady beetles are mainly beneficial insects (natural enemies) that prey upon a wide range of pests. All lady beetles in Hawaiʻi are predators of insects and mites, except one species, *Psyllobora vigintimaculata*, which feeds on fungi. As you can see on this poster, the lady beetles of Hawaiʻi are diverse, with a variety of color patterns, shapes and sizes. Click here for a pdf of our **newLady Beetles of Hawai‘i poster****!**
 The goal of the North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory (NCARL) is to develop, document, and promote soil, crop, and pest management practices that are ecologically sustainable while maintaining producer profitability.
 Since its inception in 2011, the NCARL People's Garden has produced nearly 9000 pounds of fresh produce, all which were donated to non-profit food distribution programs in the Brookings community.  The Garden is planted and maintained by NCARL and USDA-NRCS volunteers, as well as various community groups.  The Garden demonstrates conservation practices such as cover cropping, inter-seeding, water conservation and mulch.
 Sentinel prey cage in a cornplotfor measuring predation of corn earworm eggs by ants and beetles.


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IPRI, International Plant Resistance to Insects Research Farm Research on Coccinellidae


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