Bruchid beetle, is it worth spraying for any more?

[Thomas Simpson]

With these 20 degree days are people bothering spraying winter beans anymore for bruchid beetle. Hallmark zeon is the only one left but it may kill more beneficials than beetles.

 

[Gong Farmer]

Most growers have given up trying to grow for human consumption since they can't control bruchid. If growing for feed, not worth trying.

 

[britt]

I won't. Last time I used 2 well timed sprays they still had holes and the premium barely covers the cost or 2 sprays anyway if it does work.

 

[kc6475]

Not spraying for them here anymore, didn't spray for them last year for the first time and they had far less holes in than the previous few years I had sprayed.

 

[Barleymow]

Nope it's down to luck if they have holes or not it seems to me

 

[Bogweevil]

For the 2021 season Syngenta and PGRO have decided to stop the use of Bruchidcast.
This decision has been made due to it’s inability to act as a stewardship tool to reduce spray events. From experiences in the last couple of seasons, increasing temperatures have caused prolonged periods of spray events, rather than few targeted events. As such the tool was not promoting good practice, nor was it helping to achieve higher efficacy and therefore better quality.

 

[Boysground]

I pulled the insecticide, my beans were full of bees and other happy insects. Sure it would have done more harm than good.

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[Nick.]

I stopped about 6 years ago. Complete waste of time, plus all the other insects that must have been killed, probably most beneficial.

 

[Bogweevil]

I see there is an EAMU for acetamiprid in seed crops since yesterday:

InSyst 13414​

GB and NI​

20211158 14/06/2021 31/08/2021​

Certis Europe BV​

acetamiprid​

Gb only: and seed crop field bean​

Bruchid beetle (Bruchus rufimanus)​

 

[Rob Holmes]

Agree, complete waste of time spraying for brucid, kills more beneficials imho, I send my beans to the Frontier (Wells) plant in Ruddington for de-hulling to go into fish food.
The price is comparable to HC

 

[Fish]

I can safely say I have never sprayed of bb, harvest 20 was a good year here with very little damage, but the previous year, 19, was very bad, and after looking, the buyers decided that at 20%+ bb they were only fit for feed.
Three months later how ever, not many hc beans around, and they had miraculously become quality beans and went for hc at full premium

 

[farmerfred86]

I see there is an EAMU for acetamiprid in seed crops since yesterday:

InSyst 13414​

GB and NI​

20211158 14/06/2021 31/08/2021​

Certis Europe BV​

acetamiprid​

Gb only: and seed crop field bean​

Bruchid beetle (Bruchus rufimanus)​

Please god do not be tempted to go and spray this neo-nic onto a flowering crop of beans!