Bermuda Stem Maggots<\/strong> are here and every producer I have talked to is treating for them.\u00a0 Just a reminder for Bermuda Stem Maggot Control, the use of a pyrethroids labeled for forage use around 10 days after the previous cutting appears to be the best strategy for control. Sometimes a second application 10 days later will be beneficial, particularly if the forage is growing more slowly. Here are some photos I took last week of some sticky traps we are implementing to try to get an idea on what time of day will be best to spray for flies.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_9131-300x225.jpg\")
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You can see the golden brown tops of the stems that have been hit by stem maggots.<\/p>\n
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Things do not always go as planned. A neighboring dog decided to take my steaks I had placed in the hay field and relocate them by the gate. Before he left he got a few chews in on the stick.<\/p>\n
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Good help can be hard to find. I had some of the best help around while sweeping for flies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was in hay fields last week working on Bermuda Stem Maggot trials for our post doc Dr. Lisa Baxter. While in the fields I had to use a sweep net to capture stem maggot flies to help estimate numbers. While sampling for flies I was finding army worm numbers well above threshold. See Pics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16,21,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertility","category-grazing","category-insects","category-livestock","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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