We are not the only ones suffereing with Flea Beetle in OSR .

[Pilatus]

Go to " www.parklandventures.com" and look at news section "Flea Beetle and wind". It may be of some interest to some of you.
Never ceases to amaze me how the "Flea Beetle " life cycle survives the Canadian Prairie winter temps.

 

[David.]

They do seem to have selected for the resistant strain of beetles.

 

[Clive]

We blame CSFB on the neonics ban but I honestly think the decades of insecticide abuse would have got us here anyway

if we keep doing this what crop breaks next ?

 

[nick...]

Going to have to fallow here unless find someone who wants maize land.ltd storage does not help matters either.
Nick...

 

[snarling bee]

Wheat - BYDV, LWBM & OWBM

 

[Sprayer 1]

Off topic a bit , but is there any insect that will prey on csfb that can be encourage through companion cropping.

 

[T Hectares]

Off topic a bit , but is there any insect that will prey on csfb that can be encourage through companion cropping.

Copied this, it confirms what many of us believe in harming beneficials more than the target...

The main natural enemy is the wasp Tersilochus microgaster, which parasitises larvae in spring. All parasitoids may be vulnerable to pyrethroids. This means that repeated applications of pyrethroid may do more harm than good especially when the target pest has evolved resistance to them. Parasitoids remain as pupae in the soil until the next crop, and may be damaged by ploughing. Minimum cultivation after rape favours parasitoid survival.

 

[willy]

We blame CSFB on the neonics ban but I honestly think the decades of insecticide abuse would have got us here anyway

if we keep doing this what crop breaks next ?

Exactly this we are selecting problems

 

[Blaithin]

That was May 17th. Not even any crops growing yet at that point. Just my poor flowers

 

[chipchap]

Will we see earwigs and ladybirds in our wheat at harvest time in a year or two, just like I remember when I was a boy?