Ask any vegetable gardener about beans and pull up a chair. Some grow lima beans, dry beans or wax beans but almost every home garden has a patch of green beans. Beans grow quickly and don't need much ...

Bean leaf beetle is among the top five most-damaging invertebrate soybean pests, costing growers nearly 3.1 million bushels in 2023.¹ This pest is especially damaging early in the season and can cause ...

Though their life cycles differ, soybean aphids and bean leaf beetles can both pose significant threats to emerging soybeans due to the timing of their own emergence. Although the first bean leaf ...

It is important to keep a watchful eye out for the two-spotted spider mite, especially as we head into some very hot and dry weather in the near term. Because we are well ahead of schedule this spring ...

When I was a kid, I hated picking beans. It was hot, humid, and eventually, I was sunburned from picking them. The work was intense, because my sister and I put off picking them until the bounty was ...

We are receiving numerous reports and also observing very large bean leaf beetle populations this year. As a result, there is also a lot of concern about soybean defoliation due to the emergence and ...

LINCOLN — Nebraska soybean growers may be noticing soybean defoliation in their fields. The culprit is most likely grasshoppers and/or bean leaf beetles, University of Nebraska-Lincoln specialists say ...

A few fields of early planted soybeans have emerged; be watchful for early season feeding of bean leaf beetles. The beetles overwinter as adults and will migrate to those first few emerging bean ...

CHARLES CITY, Iowa --This week is likely the time to spray for bean leaf beetles if farmers are finding them above economic threshold levels in northern Iowa, says George Cummins, Iowa State ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Lower insect populations have led to minor crop damage this summer, but a Purdue Extension entomologist says farmers should still watch for anomalies when scouting. Part of what ...

Bean leaf beetles have been a common pest found in south central and southwestern Minnesota. This year the beetle was also found in southeastern Minnesota, but at lower densities. The bean leaf beetle ...

Bean leaf beetle emergence is approaching, and it’s important to start thinking about this pest. Once soybean begin emerging, the overwintering population of bean leaf beetle adults will move into ...