Bugs. Getting to know them with Laura Iles
October 25, 2021
Duration:
32:28
In this episode understand the importance of knowing your enemy. Insect pests have particular life cycles, behaviors, and biological relationships. To provide good insect pest control we need to know their weak points, more so when talking about organic pest management, where insecticide sprays are limited in terms of efficiency and residuality. Two insects are of main interest for our research: cucumber beetles, and squash bugs (if you listened to episode 1 of this series you should know why!).
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This is a project funded by USDA's NIFA-OREI program. The name of the project is "Resilient systems for sustainable management of cucurbit crops", award number 2019-51300-30248.
Welcome to The Current Cucurbit podcast series. In this podcast series, we dive into the world of organic IPM for cucurbit crops, focusing on the experience of our interdisciplinary research project. We will expand your knowledge regarding the use of the mesotunnel production system as an IPM tool for cucurbit crops, the capabilities of living mulches for organic weeds control, our efforts in the lab testing biocontrol agents for the main diseases that attack cucurbit crops, and more!
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