ollie989898
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European corn borer would be a serious problem if it started hitting maize crops in the UK.
Insects taking over the world?!
- Thread starter Flat 10
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European corn borer would be a serious problem if it started hitting maize crops in the UK.
R.B.H
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Barley- Didn't use deter this autumn as knew we were only 12 months away from no choice. Sprayed late sep barley once as could find significant numbers of aphids and were over HGCA calculator even though i don't like doing it. Clearly should have followed up again in mild autumn as agronomist recommended as have big patches of BYDV.
Regards your above statement @Flat 10 Sprayed our winter barley at least twice for aphids, thought i was wasting my time maybe not now. Think you have more nerve than me, i tend to air on the side of caution and spray just in case don't want to risk BYDV
Had similar problems to you with beans and linseed, so have dropped break crops as not profitable for us and gone for just barley and a small area of wheat.
Would like to spray less which may be better for environment but not always possible and with the removal of the likes of Deter the options are limited.
Regards your above statement @Flat 10 Sprayed our winter barley at least twice for aphids, thought i was wasting my time maybe not now. Think you have more nerve than me, i tend to air on the side of caution and spray just in case don't want to risk BYDV
Had similar problems to you with beans and linseed, so have dropped break crops as not profitable for us and gone for just barley and a small area of wheat.
Would like to spray less which may be better for environment but not always possible and with the removal of the likes of Deter the options are limited.
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I thought they had a different name. Those being the ones covered in their own sh!t?
You're right - it was the cereal leaf beetle, not flea beetle. My bad.
ZXR17
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- Location
- South Dorset
This is an open question to all - what extra yield could be added by those flowers and how much would they delay harvest by?? 40 days from the end of flowering to pod maturity
I didn’t really mean those flowers per se but rather the ones that arrived a fortnight after the first ones following the rain. Don’t know whether you can see the FB damage to the pods in my picture. Only good thing is that there are 100s of swifts eating them....