Crop pest reports are picking up

Sawflies-Photo: Josh-Kamps-@UWMadisonEx

A University of Wisconsin entomologist says she is getting more reports from farmers about crop pests.

Emily Bick researches crop pests and collects insect reports from farmers.  She tells Brownfield farmers are reporting sawfly problems in many of their forage crops. “It seems to be behaving very similarly to what cutworm would do in terms of topping the crop really early on, and I’ve heard that in a couple of different crops, all forages.”

Bick says sawflies are easy to distinguish from other pests.

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