Argentine INTA issued an alert for peaks of agricultural pests
Argentina
Published Nov 21, 2021
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The agricultural zoology area of the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) Marcos Juárez warned that the high temperatures in October, with maximum values of 38 ° in some regions of the center of the country, added to storms, rains and drizzles, encouraged the metabolism of some insects that began to be detected in the lots through the damage they cause. Two reports entitled Agricultural pest alarm system and Damage caused by chewing insects in corn leaves: clues for their discrimination, prepared by agronomists Emilia Balbi and Fernando Flores, from INTA's Experimental Station in Córdoba, emphasize that pests such as Cutter caterpillar, bolillera, early military, wheat defoliator and pellet bug, reached population peaks. The largest groups of pest insects are detected in lots that have cover crops as their predecessor or lots with the presence of weeds in which a chemical fallow was carried out close to sowing. Said crops showed damage from cutter caterpillars in ...
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