Japanese Beetles

[ECIN]

With the VERY warm month of May here - Japanese Beetles are showing up already in strong numbers - Really , almost a month ahead of normal - Never have had to spray for them - but this may be that one year - Good idea to scout and keep scouting your fields - especial the closer we get to tassel . 

Speaking of tasseling - At the rate of GDU's with all the warm weather - Forecast is by the end of June - first week of July - most corn around here should be tasseling . 

Pre weed control = Excellent control here this year - Burn down was with   Classact - Roundup & Verdict . 

Posted beans last week - Liberty @ 29 oz + Classact @20 oz - 20 gpa + low 90's = Smoking the weeds ! SMOKING ! 

Side note here - Looks like Indiana is off to a get start with the Amount of complaint's to the OISC !  Matter of fact - If I read it right - we are ahead of last year - even with the new training  -  Most complaint's coming in from Nursery's -- WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I can see big bucks there !!!!!!!!!!!! 

If this stay's this way is summer - watch for the BIG hammer to fall for next year . 

Happy Scouting ! 

[Wind]

About a week ago I saw  a few on some vegetable plants, thy where small but they where Japanese

beetles.  I just return from a 280 mile trip south for my son and had about a dozen windshield strikes of which I'm sure they where the beetles.  I was hoping our cold Winter killed them off.  Wet here and the crops recovered well from the hail.  One farmer in the center of "harms way" was down to 40,000 on his hailed beans and re-drilled at around 120,000.

Corn tassel here will be first week of July.  A little earlier than normal.

Sweet corn ready late June!!

With your excellent weed control recipe will you need to make a 2nd pass post spray?  I wish farmers who are tempted to use that volatile herbicide would try Liberty first. 

[ECIN]

OWind - Good to talk to you again  -  The star's must have lined up for me on burn down : )) But to answer your question - I Hope !---- Hope that this post will be the only one - Before I switched to Liberty beans - I watched the one - yes only one that was planting them - there good - and they get by with one pass and it holds - still clean at cutting time . 

I will admit - this is the first time I have used Verdict and so far was impressed - yet - I really think its a team effort , with the Classact and roundup - I have used Classact for years - it's a big player for me - I still don't understand why my friends still use them 51 pound bags of AMS - and not get the results - BUT ! Classact and AMS is not a apples to apples deal - you know what I mean ? 

Sorry to hear about your Hail deal - We just miss everything here - lol 

Parts of IN are floating away - others ( ME ) sure could use some rain . 

Have a good one !

...Ken 

[WCMO]

Included insecticide when post-sprayed beans last week.  Japanese beetles already coming on strong, was hoping the cold weather around 1st of year would have killed some eggs/larvae, but doesn't look like it.  Elm trees are shedding quite a few leaves laced by them.  Have one red delicious apple tree that is almost completely defoliated.  Have one apricot tree, leaves aren't being eaten, but are being cut off and all over the ground, apricot fruits not ripe yet but nearly all of them are covered with beetles.  Have 3 peach trees, not many peaches on them, but they will be next.  The beetles seem to like some trees more than others, also seeing them on poison oak and milkweeds in the roadbanks, fencerows and ditches.  Will have to keep an eye on the corn and beans.

[ECIN]

as hoping the cold weather around 1st of year would have killed some eggs/larvae, but doesn't look like it. 

WCMO - that I just a myth : )) from back in the old days : ))  From what I have read - research - is that bugs are pretty smart - as the ground temps go down they also go down - to warmer ground . Yes - can see a spray app coming here to .

Ken   

[WCMO]

So, I set out a beetle "trap" in my back yard -- using a 5-gallon bucket for the trap instead of those little plastic bags that come with them --  emptied bucket twice yesterday, ready to empty again, full to just a few inches from top of bucket.

[JimMeade]

They're in our Linden tree but when I walked in the beans I didn't see them much but I was looking for something else.

[WCMO]

The worst I've seen in the beans has been in the field borders where near trees that have been eaten on.  Have no clue how many bugs have caught in bucket traps.  Actually set out 2 of those traps, emptying buckets 2x per day, nearly full each time until yesterday when just emptied once, probably due to rain overnight.  Elm trees and apple trees appear to be eaten on the most here.  Bugs also really like the leaves of the wild grapes ("possom grapes") that grow/vine in the old fencerows.  Last year it seemed the beetles ate all the way thru July, but might have started a week or so earlier this year.  If need to spray them, probably recommend late morning thru late afternoon when seem to be most active, buckets seem to be full around noon, and again early evening.