{"id":278,"date":"2019-06-07T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T15:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/?p=278"},"modified":"2019-06-07T11:33:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T15:33:26","slug":"bermudagrass-stem-maggot-in-ga-hayfields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/2019\/06\/bermudagrass-stem-maggot-in-ga-hayfields\/","title":{"rendered":"Bermudagrass Stem Maggot in GA Hayfields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><em>Will Hudson, Lisa Baxter and Dennis Hancock<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">We\u2019ve had a number of calls from growers and agents in the last week or so concerned that they should be spraying for BSM.\u00a0 Even in south GA, the flies are just now starting to show up.\u00a0 You may be able to find some damaged stems, but most of the widespread browning of the grass is probably due to the extreme heat and dry weather following an unusually cool and wet spring.\u00a0 BSM damage kills just the last 2 leaves, and does not turn the tips of the leaves brown.\u00a0 They generally do not affect leaves lower on the tiller than the top 2.\u00a0 Even in our well-watered research plots in Tifton, we are only seeing 10-20% damage in the most susceptible varieties.\u00a0 The current drought situation has many producers delaying their hay harvest.\u00a0 This means we have more mature bermudagrass than usual (and so there appears to be more damage). \u00a0There is likely no need to spray yet, but growers should be alert and be ready to spray after the next cutting if there is a noticeable amount of damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Hudson, Lisa Baxter and Dennis Hancock We\u2019ve had a number of calls from growers and agents in the last week or so concerned that they should be spraying for BSM.\u00a0 Even in south GA, the flies are just now starting to show up.\u00a0 You may be able to find some damaged stems, but most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/forageteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}