The researchers studied the Lygus bug, a common cotton pest in California. (Scott Loarie/ iNaturalist) Insect infestations pose danger to humans by destroying crops, spreading disease, and damaging ...

Lygus bugs also made their presence known, while aphids were problematic in field peas, soybeans and small grains. All eyes in the desi chickpea market are on Australia, but an analyst warns you ...

The term lygus bug refers to any member of plant bug in the genus Lygus. Lygus bugs have piercing and sucking mouthparts, with which they puncture plant tissues, inject digestive enzymes, and suck the ...

Lygus bugs, or Western tarnished plant bugs (Lygus hesperus), are serious pests in the Central Coast and Oxnard strawberry-growing areas, where the crop is typically grown past May and through the ...

In July and August, we removed runners and cleaned the beds weekly to reduce pest pressure (yellow jackets, lygus bugs, small mammals). While these actions are helping with pest management, one of the ...

Manitoba Agriculture, Manitoba Crop Alliance, and FMC Canada have approved the use of Carbine insecticide for lygus bug control in confection sunflowers. The need for an emergency use registration was ...

The Agrobot Bug Vacuum robot is an autonomous vacuum robot with a combustion engine for lygus pest control that navigates reactively across the field. The farmer just has to transport it to the ...

The lygus bug has a conspicuous triangle on its back. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) Ever seen a beneficial insect and a pest sharing the same blossom? The bee: the beneficial insect. The lygus bug ...

Legumes also did not seem to boost pest damage. Reeve said her biggest concern was lygus bugs, also called tarnished plant bugs, which leave unmarketable marks on fruit. The researchers found higher ...

KENNEWICK, Wash. — Researchers are tallying the cost of lygus bugs to Washington potato farmers to help determine the most efficient way to control the tiny insects. “We need to know if the ...