Presentations
PM1 9am
Tue, Dec 13, 2016
9:00am to 9:50am
PM1 2pm
Tue, Dec 13, 2016
2:00pm to 2:50pm
Stink Bug Complexes in Soybean: Scouting, Damage, and Control Options
Southern grown soybean is attacked by a diverse insect pest complex, but the primary problems in recent years have been associated with stink bugs. In the past, the southern green stink bug, the brown stink bug, and the green stink bug have had the greatest economic impact on soybean producers. Now, the redbanded stink bug has spread throughout the Midsouth and is the dominant stink bug species found in LA and TX soybean. This is an evolving system and new management tactics are needed to combat a changing pest assemblage. In this presentation, we will review how stink bugs injure and damage soybean and what that means to yield and profits. In addition, we will discuss how to scout for stink bugs and, when stink bugs reach action thresholds, what control options are available.
Speaker
Jeff Davis
Jeffrey A. Davis is an Associate Professor (research/teaching) in the Department of Entomology and is the Soybean Entomologist for the Louisiana State University Agricultural Research Center. His research focuses on integrated pest management of soybean, virus-vector interactions in soybean, sweetpotato and potato, and hemipteran feeding behavior. Dr. Davis grew up on a 100 head dairy farm in Berlin, Wisconsin. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a BS in Agronomy in 1996. He joined the Peace Corps in 1997 and served as a sustainable agriculture extension agent in Senegal, Africa from 1997 to 1999. In 2002, he became a graduate student at the University of Minnesota and received his MS in Entomology in 2004 and his PhD in Entomology in 2006. He joined the Department of Entomology at LSU in November 2007 and was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2013.