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Field Crop Insect-Pest Calendar for Kentucky

Corn

• Corn Rootworms in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Corn Rootworm Resistance Management with Bt Corn  |  PDF
• Cutworm Management in Corn  |  PDF
• Insect Management with Continuous Corn  |  PDF
• Resistance Management with Bt Corn  |  PDF
• Bt-Corn: What It Is and How It Works  |  PDF
• Lesser Cornstalk Borer  |  PDF
• Bt Corn Refuges  |  PDF
• Bt-Corn for Corn Borer Control  |  PDF
• Corn Leaf Aphid  |  PDF
• The Common Stalk Borer in Corn  |  PDF
• Predicting European Corn Borer Development  |  PDF
• Southwestern Corn Borer  |  PDF
• Armyworms in Corn  |  PDF
• Fall Armyworm in Corn  |  PDF
• Wireworms  |  PDF
• Regulation and Labeling of Biotech Foods  |  PDF

Soybeans

• Dectes Stem Borer (aka Soybean Stem Borer) in Kentucky Grown Soybeans  |  PDF
• Green Cloverworm in Kentucky Soybean  |  PDF
• Japanese Beetle in Kentucky Soybean  |  PDF
• Soybean Podworm in Kentucky Soybean  |  PDF
• Bean Leaf Beetle in Kentucky Soybeans  |  PDF
• Cutworms in Kentucky Soybeans  |  PDF
• Seedcorn Maggot in Kentucky Soybeans  |  PDF
• Three common KY grasshoppers and their natural enemies  |  PDF

Wheat/Small Grains

• Barley Yellow Dwarf in Small Grains in the Southeast PDF
• Aphids and Barley Yellow Dwarf (BYD)in Kentucky Grown Wheat  |  PDF
• Hessian Fly in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Cereal Leaf Beetle in Kentucky Wheat  |  PDF
• Armyworms in Small Grains  |  PDF
• Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus and the Wheat Curl Mite  |  PDF

Alfalfa/Forage Crops

• Blister Beetles in Alfalfa  |  PDF
• Potato Leafhoppers  |  PDF
• Clover Root Curculio in Alfalfa  |  PDF
• Alfalfa Weevil Field Sampling Program  |  PDF
• Three common KY grasshoppers and their natural enemies  |  PDF

Tobacco

• Insect pests of float plants  |  PDF
• Wireworms  |  PDF
• Keeping Hornworms from the Curing Barn  |  PDF

Soil Insects

• Ground beetles  |  PDF
• Wireworms  |  PDF
• Soil Insect Pests and Returning Idle Land to Production  |  PDF

General Crop-Pest Topics

• Aphids  |  PDF
• Regulation and Labeling of Biotech Foods  |  PDF
• Pesticide Residues in Foods  |  PDF
• Using Pheromone Traps in Field Crops  |  PDF
• Procedure for Selecting Random Locations for Sampling  |  PDF
• Predicting Insect Development Using Degree Days  |  PDF

Beneficial Insects

• Green Lacewing  |  PDF
• Ladybugs  |  PDF
• Vendors of Microbial & Botanical Insecticides & Insect Monitoring Devices  |  PDF
• Vendors of Benefical Organisms in North America  |  PDF

Stored Grain

• Controlling Insects in Stored Grain  |  PDF
• Insect Pests of Stored Grain: Cadelle Beetle  |  PDF
• Insect Pests of Stored Grain: Flour Beetles  |  PDF
• Insect Pests of Stored Grain: Indianmeal Moth  |  PDF
• Insect Pests of Stored Grain: Lesser Grain Borer  |  PDF

Fruit Insect-Pest Calendar for Kentucky

Tree Fruits

• Woolly Apple Aphid  |  PDF
• Periodical Cicadas in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Bagging Apples: Alternative Pest Management for Hobbyists  |  PDF
• Leafrollers  |  PDF
• Cherry Fruit Flies  |  PDF
• Green Fruitworms  |  PDF
• Leafhoppers on Apples  |  PDF
• Controlling Apple Insect Pests  |  PDF
• Codling Moth  |  PDF
• San Jose Scale  |  PDF
• European Red Mite  |  PDF
• Rosy Apple Aphid  |  PDF
• Oriental Fruit Moth  |  PDF
• Peachtree Borer  |  PDF
• Lesser Peachtree Borer  |  PDF
• Plum Curculio  |  PDF

Nuts

• Nut Weevils  |  PDF
• Pecan Insects  |  PDF
• Insecticides for Managing Nut Pests  |  PDF

Grapes

• Green June Beetle on Grapes  |  PDF
• Grape Berry Moth  |  PDF
• Grape Phylloxera  |  PDF
• Grape Cane Gallmaker and Grape Cane Girdler  |  PDF
• Grape Flea Beetle  |  PDF
• Harvest Pests of Grapes  |  PDF
• Grape Root Borer  |  PDF
• Grape Insects  |  PDF

Berries

• Raspberry Crown Borer  |  PDF
• Some Common Strawberry Pests  |  PDF
• Rednecked and Raspberry Cane Borers  |  PDF

Home Gardening

• General Use Insecticides for Home Gardening  |  PDF

Related Topics

• Regulation and Labeling of Biotech Foods  |  PDF
• Pesticide Residues in Foods  |  PDF
• Allegheny Mound Ants in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Using Pheromone Traps in Field Crops  |  PDF
• Procedure for Selecting Random Locations for Sampling  |  PDF
• Predicting Insect Development Using Degree Days  |  PDF
• Vendors of Microbial and Botanical Insecticides and Insect Monitoring Devices  |  PDF
• A Field Guide to the Slugs of Kentucky PDF

Vegetable Insect-Pest Calendar for Kentucky

Corn

• Corn Earworm Management in Sweet Corn  |  PDF
• Sweet Corn Pests  |  PDF
• Stink Bug Damage to Corn  |  PDF
• Seedcorn Maggots  |  PDF

Potatoes

• Potato Pests  |  PDF
• Colorado Potato Beetle Management  |  PDF

Peppers

• Pepper Maggot in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Common Insects Attacking Peppers  |  PDF
• Beet Armyworm in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Predicting European Corn Borer Development  |  PDF
• Yellowstriped Armyworm  |  PDF
• European Pepper Moth  |  PDF

Tomatoes

• Tomato insect IPM guidelines  |  PDF
• Silverleaf Whitefly on Tomato  |  PDF
• Yellowstriped Armyworm  |  PDF

Other Vegetables

• Thrips Management With Onions  |  PDF
• Cabbage Webworm  |  PDF
• Cabbage Insects  |  PDF
• Cucumber Beetles  |  PDF
• Squash Vine Borer and Squash Bug  |  PDF
• Silverleaf Whitefly on Squash  |  PDF
• Yellowstriped Armyworm  |  PDF
• Insecticides for Managing Herb Pests  |  PDF

Home Gardening

• General Use Insecticides for Home Gardening  |  PDF

Greenhouse

• Float Plant Pests  |  PDF
• Controls for Greenhouse Ornamental Insect Pests  |  PDF
• Cyclamen Mites in the Greenhouse  |  PDF
• Springtails  |  PDF
• European Pepper Moth  |  PDF

Beneficial Insects

• Green Lacewing  |  PDF
• Ground Beetles  |  PDF
• Ladybugs  |  PDF
• Praying Mantids  |  PDF
• Managing Tracheal Mites in Honeybees  |  PDF
• Varroa Mites Infesting Honey Bee Colonies  |  PDF
• The Wheel Bug, Arilus cristatus L.  |  PDF
• Vendors of Benefical Organisms in North America  |  PDF

General Pests

• Beet Armyworm in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Seedcorn Maggots  |  PDF
• Whiteflies in Gardens  |  PDF
• Japanese Beetles  |  PDF
• Aphids  |  PDF
• Three Common Kentucky Grasshoppers and Their Natural Enemies  |  PDF
• Garden Fleahopper  |  PDF
• Two-Spotted Spider Mites  |  PDF
• Yellowstriped Armyworm  |  PDF

Related Topics

• Row Covers for Insect Management  |  PDF
• Regulation and Labeling of Biotech Foods  |  PDF
• Pesticide Residues in Foods  |  PDF
• Allegheny Mound Ants in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Using Pheromone Traps in Field Crops  |  PDF
• Procedure for Selecting Random Locations for Sampling  |  PDF
• Predicting Insect Development Using Degree Days  |  PDF
• Vendors of Microbial and Botanical Insecticides and Insect Monitoring Devices  |  PDF

Landscape Insect-Pest Calendar for Kentucky

Calendar for Common Kentucky Shade Tree and Woody Ornamental Pests

Trees & Shrubs

• Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) FAQs for Kentuckians  | PDF
• Meeting the Threat of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid  | PDF
• Japanese Beetles in the Urban Landscape  | PDF
• Timing control actions for landscape pests using flowering plants as indicators  | PDF
• Greenhouse Insect Management  | PDF
• Insect Borers in Trees and Shrubs  | PDF
• Maple Shoot Borer  | PDF
• Calendar for Common Kentucky Shade Tree and Woody Ornamental Pests
• Alternative controls: pests of trees/woody ornamentals in the home landscape  | PDF
• Checking Eastern Tent Caterpillar Egg Masses  | PDF
• Periodical Cicadas in Kentucky  | PDF
• Southern Pine Beetle  | PDF
• Bagworms on Landscape Plants  | PDF
• Spider Mites on Landscape Plants  | PDF
• Borers That Attack Landscape Pines  | PDF
• Pine Sawflies  | PDF
• Common Sap Feeding Pine Pests  | PDF
• Elm Leaf Beetles  | PDF
• Cankerworms  | PDF
• Plant Bugs and Lacebugs  | PDF
• Some Common Shade Tree Galls  | PDF
• Oak Galls  | PDF
• Maple Galls  | PDF
• Maple Petiole Borer  | PDF
• Yellow Poplar Weevil  | PDF
• Boxelder Twig Borer  | PDF
• Eastern Tent Caterpillar  | PDF
• Tent Caterpillars  | PDF
• European Gypsy Moth  | PDF
• Boxwood Psyllid  |  PDF

• Scale Insects in Kentucky: Main Menu

•    Cottony Maple Scale  | PDF
•    Euonymus Scale  | PDF
•    Juniper Scale  | PDF
•    Lecanium Scales  | PDF
•    Magnolia Scale  | PDF
•    Obscure Scale  | PDF
•    Oystershell Scale  | PDF
•    Taxus Scales  | PDF
•    Tuliptree Scale  | PDF
•    Walnut Scale  | PDF

Home Gardening

• Calendar for Common Kentucky Shade Tree and Woody Ornamental Pests  | PDF
• Alternative controls: pests of trees/woody ornamentals in the home landscape  | PDF
• Checking Eastern Tent Caterpillar Egg Masses  | PDF
• General Use Insecticides for Home Gardening  | PDF

House Plants

• Houseplant Insect Control  | PDF
• Springtails  | PDF

Flowers and Foliage Plants

• Japanese Beetles in the Urban Landscape  | PDF
• Slugs  | PDF
• Plant Bugs and Lacebugs  | PDF
• Aphids  | PDF
• Three Common Kentucky Grasshoppers and Their Natural Enemies  | PDF

Lawn and Turf

• Controlling White Grubs  | PDF
• Velvet Ants  | PDF
• Insecticides for Control of White Grubs in Kentucky Turfgrass  | PDF
• Earthworms - Thatch Busters  | PDF
• Yard Wasps  | PDF
• Japanese Beetles in the Urban Landscape  | PDF

Temporary Invaders

• Boxelder Bugs  | PDF
• Millipedes  | PDF
• Sowbugs and Pillbugs  | PDF
• Soldier Beetles  | PDF
• Clover Mites  | PDF
• Asian Lady Beetle Infestation of Structures  | PDF
• Hackberry Psyllids  | PDF
• Elm Leaf Beetles  | PDF
• Cluster Flies, Face Flies, and Blow Flies  | PDF

Beneficial Insects

• Green Lacewing  |  PDF
• Ground Beetles  |  PDF
• Ladybugs  |  PDF
• Praying Mantids  |  PDF
• Managing Tracheal Mites in Honeybees  |  PDF
• Varroa Mites Infesting Honey Bee Colonies  |  PDF
• The Wheel Bug, Arilus cristatus L.  |  PDF
• Vendors of Benefical Organisms in North America  |  PDF

Greenhouse

• Float Plant Pests  |  PDF
• Controls for Greenhouse Ornamental Insect Pests  |  PDF
• Cyclamen Mites in the Greenhouse  |  PDF
• Springtails  |  PDF
• Greenhouse Insect Management  | PDF
• Some insecticides/acaricides labeled for use in greenhouses/interior plantscapes  | PDF

Livestock Insect-Pest Calendar for Kentucky

Horses

• Horse Bots  | PDF
• Horse Flies and Deer Flies  | PDF
• Insecticides for Fly Control on Horses  | PDF
• Fly Control Around Horse Barns and Stables  | PDF

Cattle

• Managing Pyrethroid-resistant Horn Flies  | PDF
• Insecticide-Impregnated Cattle Ear Tags  | PDF
• Walk Through Horn Fly Trap for Pastured Cattle  | PDF
• Horn Flies and Cattle  | PDF
• Face Flies and Pinkeye  | PDF
• Lice on Beef and Dairy Cattle  | PDF
• Horse Flies and Deer Flies  | PDF
• Insecticide Dust Bags for Cattle Insect Control  | PDF

Sheep

• Sheep Pests  | PDF

Poultry

• Lesser Mealworms or Litter Beetles  | PDF
• External Mite & Insect Parasites of Backyard Chickens  | PDF

Related Topics

• Rat-tailed Maggots and Moth Flies  | PDF
• How Far Can House Flies Fly?  | PDF
• Biological Control of Flies  | PDF
• Allegheny Mound Ants in Kentucky  | PDF

Structural and Medical Insect-Pest Calendar for Kentucky

Stinging & Biting Pests

• Urban Spider Chart: Common Kentucky Spiders
• Invisible Itches: Insect and Non-Insect Causes PDF
• Mosquitoes: Practical Advice for Homeowners  | PDF
• Limitations of Home Insect Foggers (“Bug Bombs”)  | PDF
• Management of Head Lice  | PDF
• Ridding Your Home of Fleas  | PDF
• Pet-centered Flea Prevention and Control  | PDF
• Stinging Caterpillars  | PDF
• Ticks & Disease  | PDF
• The Lone Star Tick In Kentucky | PDF
• Chiggers  | PDF
• Common Spiders Found Around Homes and Buildings  | PDF
• Eliminating Spiders Around Homes and Buildings  | PDF
• Brown Recluse Spider  | PDF
• Scorpions in Kentucky  | PDF
• The European Hornet in Kentucky  | PDF
• Controlling Nuisance Honey Bees  | PDF
• Controlling Wasps, Hornets & Yellowjackets  | PDF
• Foraging Yellowjackets  |  PDF
• Bed Bugs  |  PDF
• Parasitic Mites Of Humans  |  PDF
• Invisible Itches  |  PDF

Wood

• Thermal Deinfestation of Household Items  | PDF
• Do-It-Yourself Termite Baits: Do They Work?  | PDF
• Termite Control: Answers for Homeowners  | PDF
• Protecting your Home Against Termites  | PDF
• Termite Baits: A Guide for Homeowners  | PDF
• Carpenter Bees  | PDF
• Carpenter Ants  | PDF
• Ant Control for the Homeowner  | PDF
• Powderpost Beetles  | PDF
• Firewood Insects  | PDF

Textiles

• House Dust Mites  |  PDF
• Carpet Beetles  |  PDF
• Clothes Moths  |  PDF
• Thermal Deinfestation of Household Items  |  PDF

Food

• Stored Product Pests in the Pantry  |  PDF
• Cockroach Elimination  |  PDF
• Control of Mice  |  PDF
• Fruit Flies  |  PDF
• Grain Mites  |  PDF
• Pesticide Residues in Foods  |  PDF
• Controlling Stored Products Pests Using Low Temperature  |  PDF
• Protecting Home-Cured Meat From Insects and Mites  |  PDF
• Thermal Deinfestation of Household Items  |  PDF

Temporary Invaders

• Centipedes and Pseudoscorpions  |  PDF
• Boxelder Bugs  | PDF
• Millipedes  | PDF
• Sowbugs and Pillbugs  | PDF
• Soldier Beetles  | PDF
• Clover Mites  | PDF
• Asian Lady Beetle Infestation of Structures  | PDF
• Hackberry Psyllids  | PDF
• Elm Leaf Beetles  | PDF
• Cluster Flies, Face Flies, and Blow Flies  | PDF
• How to Pest-Proof Your Home  |  PDF

Related Topics

• Velvet Ants  |  PDF
• Allegheny Mound Ants in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Cicada Killer Wasp  |  PDF
• Foreign Grain Beetle  |  PDF
• Midges and Gnats  |  PDF
• Varroa Mites Infesting Honey Bee Colonies  |  PDF
• Horsehair Worms  |  PDF
• Drain Flies or Moth Flies  |  PDF

Rearing Insects

• Raising Mealworms or Fishing Worms  |  PDF
• Rearing Crickets  |  PDF
• Rearing Waxworms  |  PDF

Interesting Insects

• Stinging Caterpillars  |  PDF
• Cicada Killer Wasp  |  PDF
• Saturniid Moths  |  PDF
• How to Make Butterfly Gardens  |  PDF
• Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches  |  PDF
• Starting an Observation Hive of Honeybees  |  PDF
• Allegheny Mound Ants in Kentucky  |  PDF
• Praying Mantids  |  PDF
• Recognizing Larval Insect Types  |  PDF

Related Topics

• Bt-Corn: What It Is and How It Works  |  PDF
• Pesticide Residues in Foods  |  PDF
• Plans and Parts List: "Texas" Style Cone Trap for Monitoring certain Insect Pests  |  PDF
• Mosquitoes: Practical Advice for Homeowners  |  PDF