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Category Archives: helicoverpa
Late season winter crop pest management – remember to look out for armyworm and helicoverpa
As winter crops finish up and approach harvest, there are a couple of pests that still have the potential to cause some concerns. Armyworm and helicoverpa in barley, wheat and oats. There have been a number of reports of armyworm activity across the northern region in isolated pockets. Armyworm has the capacity to lop heads [...]
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Early Season Helicoverpa issues and the use of NPV to control larvae
Helicoverpa populations have started with a bang this season. One or more larvae per plant are common in pre-flowering sorghum, corn and cotton. However, early flowering sorghum crops are carrying up to 10 larvae per head. Corn and sorghum (monocot crops) host only Helicoverpa armigera, not H. punctigera – which has implications for control. Some [...]
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Helicoverpa larvae surviving in failed chickpea crops may be a threat to the following crop
With some chickpea crops being sprayed out, rather than harvested, there are reports of helicoverpa larvae surviving on crop residues. The survival of larvae, particularly large late instar larvae, poses a threat to subsequent crops that may be sown directly into the chickpea residues. It is important to check for surviving larvae under the chickpea [...]
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Managing Helicoverpa softly in vegetative soybeans
While soybeans are more likely to be attacked by helicoverpa from flowering onwards, severe infestations can occur as early as the seedling stage. In recent years, severe early infestations have been reported on the Downs and in the coastal Burnett with the affected crops experiencing significant yield losses. The latest published thresholds for helicoverpa in [...]
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Chemigation for corn earworm control
Control of corn earworm, Helicoverpa armigera, in maize has generally not been practised because of the high cost associated with repeated insecticide application required during silking. In most years it is a case of forsaking the top of every cob to larval damage However, in some years, very high pest activity results in more severe [...]
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Latest helicoverpa thresholds for mungbeans
Revised thresholds for helicoverpa in flowering/podding mungbeans are based on a rate of damage of 35 kg/ha per larva per square metre in podding crops. The new thresholds are nearly double the old threshold of 1/m2, and make allowances for variations in control costs and crop value. For a typical scenario with pesticide control (including [...]
New Helicoverpa thresholds in vegetative soybeans
The new economic threshold for Helicoverpa in vegetative soybeans is 8 larvae per sqare metre and replaces the old 33% defoliation threshold. The new threshold is based on field trials conducted by John Rogers (formerly with DPI&F at Kingaroy). These field trials show that approximately 7.5 larvae per square metre can be tolerated with no [...]
Managing Helicoverpa larvae in chickpea crops close to dessication and harvest.
Over the last week or so we have received a number of enquiries about how best to manage new egg-lays, and populations of small larvae, in chickpea crops that are close to dessication and senescing. Of most concern are crops that still have reasonable areas of green crop in them, and what the likelihood of [...]
Helicoverpa management in chickpea – a refresher
A comprehensive overview of Helicoverpa management in chickpea can be found in the DPI&F brochure Helicoverpa management in chickpea (2007). You can read or download a copy of the brochure at the DPI & F website at www.dpi.qld.gov.au/fieldcrops. Click on the link to Helicoverpa management in chickpea where you will find the brochure. Key management [...]
Helicoverpa and NPV in Sorghum – Current Issues