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Weekly insect update

Aug 23, 2018

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First off today, it’s our weekly insect update with Scott Meers, insect management specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. Scott, let’s start with the wheat head armyworm.

Interview with Scott Meers (2:28 minutes) (1.13 Mb)

Scott is also looking for wheat fields in southern and central Alberta for surveys of wheat midge and wheat stem sawfly. For contact information, go to www.agriculture.alberta.ca/bugs-pest.

 
 
Source : Alberta Ag and Forestry

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