The Vegetable Beet: Predicting Pest Pressure

Abstract

Hindsight is 20/20 when it comes to pest problems when a missed management opportunity passes. What information can help you get ahead of the curve? And what does it all mean? Our guests today are Dan Egel, vegetable pathologist from Purdue, Keith Mason, entomologist and Enviroweather station network manager from Michigan State University, and Cheryl Trueman, vegetable pathologist from the University of Guelph in Ontario. Together we discuss the weather tools available to growers for predicting both insects and diseases in vegetable crops. Here are some of the weather network resources that our guests shared.Prediction tools for diseases and insects that overwinter here Lots of models for Michigan - https://enviroweather.msu.edu/ Lots of models across the NE and Midwest - http://newa.cornell.edu/ Diseases for melons in Indiana - http://www.melcast.info/ Diseases for sugar beets in Michigan - http://www.michiganbeets.com/dsv.cfm Tracking tools for diseases and insects that blow-inForecasting "insect rains" moving on weather systems - http://www.insectforecast.com/ Tomato/potato late blight forecast for Michigan - https://www.canr.msu.edu/psbp/resources/disease-tools/late-blight-disease-forecast Tomato/potato late blight tracking nationwide - https://usablight.org/map/ Cucurbit downy mildew tracking in Michigan - https://veggies.msu.edu/downy-mildew-news/ Cucurbit downy mildew tracking nationwide - https://cdm.ipmpipe.org/ Corn earworm trap data for Indiana - https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/veg/cornearworm/