With spring just around the corner, March bodes to bring the first signs of warm weather that will begin to thaw the frosty earth and bring blooms to bare trees. However, with the environmental ...

Early-season soybean pests often arrive before growers expect them. Bean leaf beetle populations often peak just as seedlings emerge. Around the same time, soybean aphids, having migrated off ...

Scouting soybeans in Iowa’s often-wild weather isn't at the top of everyone's list of fun things to do in the summer, but ...

The kudzu bug is an invasive soybean pest discovered in Georgia in 2009 that has spread to 13 states. Now a Clemson University grad student has helped pinpoint one of its foes. Research by Francesca ...

As planting begins in east‑central Missouri, learn which early‑season insect pests to scout in corn and soybeans and how ...

Stay ahead of three early-season pests with scouting strategies that can protect yield before damage takes hold in corn, ...

As we are getting into the later growth stages of soybeans, farmers are asking about two situations, soybean aphids on late R5-R6 growth-stage soybeans and bean leaf beetle pod feeding. Aphid ...

AMES, Iowa – Sometimes an entomologist has to fight fire with fire. Or bugs with bugs, as the case may be. Iowa State University entomologists are studying the possibility of combating soybean aphids, ...

AMES, Iowa — At a chalkboard in his office, Rana Parshad draws a vertical y-axis for aphids and a horizontal x-axis for time. Under an exponential growth model, the associate professor of mathematics ...

LE MARS, Iowa — After a rough start to the growing season for Iowa’s corn and soybean crops and spotty showers throughout the summer, crops are starting to be stressed in northwestern Iowa. “This ...