Also, another flush of weeds is coming. It's the second year in a row we are seeing wild oats emerging in late June. Scout or monitor wheat fields for midge activity. For monitoring, white emergence traps or pie plate traps can be used to determine the presence or absence of midge. Coat the inside of the emergence traps or the pie plates with vegetable oil to capture midge.
Check traps daily and record the number of midge.
Midge are a small, orange fly with a dark brown head and about half the size of a mosquito. A cooperative monitoring network is being set up through the county extension offices for growers who are interested in monitoring for midge. Daily midge counts will be released to the news media. Cereal aphid populations are increasing with the recent favorable weather conditions, and need to be monitor during stem elongation to heading. Low populations of English grain aphids have been observed.