Beneficial Insects

• Peanut Insect Update: Scout Your Peanuts!

  mrabney

  July 28, 2017

  Here is an entry I wrote last week and realized today that I never published it… Things have been relatively quiet in terms of insect pressure in most peanut fields so far in 2017, but that could change quickly. I have been getting reports of heavy caterpillar pressure in some areas of Florida, and agents…

  Posted in: Beneficial Insects, Caterpillars, General pest update, spider mite, Threecornered alfalfa hopper, Velvetbean caterpillar

• Beneficial Parasitic Wasps

  mrabney

  July 21, 2014

  Folks who have ventured into a peanut field in recent weeks may have seen something similar to the picture posted below. The white mass is a cluster of pupal cases (cocoons) of a parasitic wasp. The tiny wasp lays its eggs in a caterpillar, the eggs hatch, and the wasp larvae feed on the still…

  Posted in: Beneficial Insects, Caterpillars