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The most effective way to control corn stunt is early planting. Although corn stunt can impact corn planted in early months like April or March, the greatest damage affects corn planted after July. [2] Chemicals like insecticides can be used to control D. maidis, [14] [15] [16] however, the use of this method to control Corn Stunt is not very ...
Potato leafhopper (Empoasca fabae) belongs to family Cicadellidae and genus Empoasca within order Hemiptera. [1] In North America they are a serious agricultural pest. [2] Every year millions of dollars are lost from reduced crop yields and on pest management. [3] Crops that are impacted the most are potatoes, clover, beans, apples and alfalfa. [4]
Beet leafhoppers can infect about 300 plant species, including vegetable crops and weeds. Pinfold said the tiny bugs are 3.5 millimeters long and spend the winter in grasses of the foothills.
The world's No. 3 corn exporting country has slashed millions of tons from its harvest projections for the current crop due to a rare plague of the insect that can carry a stunt disease that ...
The usual agent is Beet Curly Top Virus (BCTV). BCTV is transmitted to from plant to plant by the beet leafhopper (Circulifer tenellus). Both the virus and the beet leafhopper have very wide host ranges. Once acquired by the leafhopper, BCTV is carried for the rest of the leafhopper's life, so long-distance spread is common.
Balclutha is a genus of leafhopper that feed on grasses. They have a cosmopolitan distribution with over 100 species. The species feed primarily on grasses and sedges and can shift into cereal crops causing some economic damage especially by transferring plant viruses. The genus is named after Balclutha in Scotland. [1]
Beet leafhoppers are polyphagous generalists which means that they are able to feed on various different types of host (biology) plants. [2] The fact that these insects migrate during the spring and summer time to cultivated fields also means that they show a lot of variation in their host plant choices by season: feeding on desert weeds in the winter and feeding on cultivated fields in the ...
During the winter in California, the beet leafhopper would migrate to the foothill of the coastal range located on the west side of the Central Valley and lay eggs in the perennial weeds and buckhorn plantains. When the nymphs of beet leafhoppers are born, they would consume the infected weeds and plants causing them to acquire the virus ...