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Posts Tagged: lygus
Celebrating the Crab Spider in Arachtober
It's Arachtober and that means celebrating arachnids for the entire month of October. Well, we ought to celebrate them year around, but October...
A crab spider eating a lygus bug, an agricultural pest in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bee and the Lygus Bug
Ever seen a beneficial insect and a pest sharing the same blossom? At a recent visit to the UC Davis Ecological Garden at the Student Farm, we...
A honey bee and a lygus bug sharing a batchelor button in the UC Davis Ecological Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The honey bee edges closer to the lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The insects meet, the honey bee, the beneficial insect, and the lygus bug, the pest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Emily Bick's AAUW Grant: Targeting the Lygus Bug
Watch out, lygus bugs! Agricultural entomologist Emily Bick is targeting you. Lygus hesperus, a serious pest of strawberries--as well as cotton,...
Agricultural entomologist Emily Bick doing field work in Denmark before the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic precautions..
Emily Bick (right) in an engagement photo with her fiance, Nora Forbes. Bick is an agricultural entomologist and a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Lene Sigsgaard at the University of Copenhagan and Forbes is a statistician at the Danish Medtronic office.
A Big Cheer for a Crab Spider
What happened in our pollinator garden on June 3 probably would have promoted a standing ovation from agriculturists who grow cotton, strawberries,...
A crab spider nails an agricultural pest, a lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It takes a village
“It takes a village to manage lygus,” says Pete Goodell, UC IPM Cooperative Extension advisor with the UC Statewide IPM Program. “Effective lygus management involves landowners, producers, pest control advisers, those with an expertise in biological and physiological issues, and others. Working together across the local landscape is an effective way to effectively manage lygus to reduce its impact in cotton.”
Goodell shared this village mantra during his keynote address at the 3rd International Lygus Symposium held in Scottsdale, Ariz., in late November. More than 80 people attended representing 12 states and five countries.
The article said Goodell and University of Arizona IPM specialist Peter Ellsworth have created a video game that allows producers to collaborate on lygus control. The software predicts lygus outbreaks based on crop placement within a region. Ellsworth and Goodell are seeking funds to get the program into growers' hands.
