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Flea beetles chow down on a canola leaf.
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They’re baack: Canola council urges vigilance with flea beetles 

The annual fight with flea beetle pressure is about to begin

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Flea beetle damage was relatively low last year compared to the crushing pressure of previous seasons, but producers can’t afford complacency. “There was less foliar insecticide used for flea beetles than the previous years, and maybe less flea beetles to some degree, but there were still a lot of flea beetles out there,” said Manitoba
VIDEO: Beating back flea beetle pressure
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VIDEO: Beating back flea beetle pressure

This insect foe need not get the upper hand in your canola crop

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Canola being the high-value crop that it is, it’s easy to understand the anxiety for growers when flea beetles begin making a meal of plants that are freshly emerged from the soil. At Manitoba Ag Days last week, Chris Manchur, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, spoke about the major pest pressures in
Flea beetles can cause significant crop damage in canola.
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Manitoba farmers get flea beetle reprieve

Faster plant establishment has helped canola get ahead of the pests

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There is good news about flea beetles. “This year has definitely been a better story when it comes to flea beetles for Manitoba,” said Courtney Boyachek, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada. To say flea beetles have been a nuisance for canola farmers for the past several years would be an understatement. Normally,
With grasshopper populations rising, now might be the time to consider some new strategies.
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Grasshopper populations on the rise

Lessons from organic farms reveal a broader approach to grasshopper management

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There is a low risk of a widespread grasshopper infestation in Manitoba this year, though there are a few areas of concern. “I don’t want people to let the guard down,” says John Gavloski, Manitoba Agriculture’s entomologist. “I certainly don’t want to indicate that we’re in an outbreak because I don’t believe that’s necessarily true.
“[Flea beetle] seem to overwinter well under our Prairie conditions and we don’t have the natural enemies that seem to knock a population out, the way it does to other insects.” – John Gavloski.
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The year in pest insects on Manitoba fields

There were many of the usual suspects and some strange new issues in Manitoba fields last season

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Flea beetles and grasshoppers topped provincial entomologist John Gavloski’s list as the peskiest insects on Manitoba farms this past season and he said producers should be on the lookout for them next year. In addition, “we’ve got three aphid species this year along with your army worms, lygus and cutworms, but our biggest surprise of the year
“The sooner you can get out there and get control of it, the better.” – Courtney Boyacheck, Canola Council of Canada.
Crops, News

What’s the future of flea beetle management in canola?

Producers are looking for answers, but experts say there aren’t many new solutions

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If you’re a Prairie farmer on Twitter, you’ve probably seen the posts. In the background, a stand of canola languishes, pock-marked with flea beetle feeding. The producer is on a second foliar pass, or maybe third or fourth. Spring 2022 has given growers another frustrating year for flea beetles after a wet and delayed seeding
Striped flea beetles gather on a canola plant.
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Flea beetles meet the flood

Is there reason to be optimistic about flea beetles this year?

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After a couple of dry years and significant losses due to flea beetle infestations, canola farmers are asking if the wet soils they’re planting into might be cause for optimism. The answer, it appears, is a resounding, “maybe.” Stress to canola is stress to canola, whether it comes from a wet spring or a year
Flea beetle is one of the pests a Manitoba researcher is targeting with biotechnology.
Crops, News

Targeting your crop enemies

Is the future of crop protection environmentally friendly biotechnology?

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So far biotechnology in agriculture has driven the use of crop protection products through genetically engineered herbicide resistance. But the next wave could displace at least some of those applications by opening up another front in the war on two familiar canola concerns — sclerotinia and flea beetle. Mark Belmonte, a professor of biological science
Manitoba seems to be the hardest hit of the Prairie provinces by flea beetles. 
photo: Courtesy Canola Council of Canada
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Late-season flea beetles no cause for alarm

They may be more evident this year as a dry August forces them higher into the canopy

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insects Flea beetles may be more evident this yearas a dry August forces them higher into the canopy

Some Manitoba farmers have been spraying for flea beetles a little later than they’re used to, but experts say this year’s jump in late-summer flea beetle sightings shouldn’t automatically sound the alarm. “Canola can handle a fair amount of flea beetles late in the season,” according to an Aug. 19 crop pest report from the
The frost that hit much of agro-Manitoba May 30 only caused light damage for the most part but it's one more stress along with growing flea beetle feeding in canola, cutworms in various crops, packed soils and hot dry winds. This frost damaged canola seedling was photographed near Starbuck May 31.
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MASC records more than 480 reseeding claims so far

Flea beetles, wind, crusted soil and frost have been the main perils

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After the harvest from hell last fall Manitoba farmers are struggling with spring seeding setbacks. As of June 4 the Manitoba Agricultural Service Corporation (MASC) had received more than 480 reseeding claims representing 130,000 acres, due to perils including frost, flea beetles, crusted soils and hot, dry winds, or a combination of some or all,

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