I have been trapping armyworms in Delta rice since 2016, in collaboration with my colleague in the Sacramento Valley, Luis Espino. Monitoring involves scouting for worm damage like leaf feeding or panicle injury and deployment of pheromone bucket traps that catch the moths.
UC Cooperative Extension will host the annual Delta field meeting on Thursday, September 30th from 10:00-11:30am, on Tyler Island in Sacramento County. The agenda is pasted below and attached.
I am pleased to announce the following meetings and webinars. 1. The Rice Experiment Station (RES) Annual Field Day will takes place next Wednesday, August 25, 2021 from 7:30am to 12:00pm, followed by lunch. The RES is located at 955 Butte City Highway (Hwy.
Armyworms have long been a pest of rice, but 2015 was an outbreak year, and high populations have continued in subsequent years. We don't really know why this is happening, but it could relate to higher minimum winter temperatures (i.e.
