Grape Colaspis Beetle

A Syngenta agronomist has been monitoring a couple of fairly new row crop pests in southern Illinois.

Phil Krieg helps manage the Syngenta Grow More Experience site on the Rend Lake College campus. He tells Brownfield growers should be scouting for Dectes Stem Borer and Grape Colaspis Beetles.

Dectes Stem Borer

“Those are two insects that have a larval stage that can definitely have a pretty big impact on your soybeans.”

Krieg says these are late season, virus carrying pests that have a direct impact on yield at the current growing stage.

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