This report covers the period of June 26 - July 9, 1998. The following insects were found in a Wilson County alfalfa field.
Numbers are the average of five single sweeps.
None were found in one Ford and one Riley County field. Mites and lots of eggs were found from the first to the sixth viable leaf counting up from the bottom. Percent of leaf area damaged ranged from trace to twenty-five percent on infested leaves . Corn growth stages ranged from nine leaf to tassel. In one Butler County field twenty-five percent of the plants were infested with European Corn Borer .