Weekly Update (July 9, 2020; Wk 11) Otani, Weiss, Trudel, Rounce, Giffen, Svendsen, Olivier, Turkington, Olfert, Vankosky

A VERY EXCITING WEEK - We are taking our new logo and MOVING!

Learn more about new Prairie Pest Monitoring Network website AND how to re-subscribe!

Please access the same WEEKLY UPDATE supporting your in-field insect monitoring efforts by clicking the "JULY 9 (WEEK 11)" on our new Weekly Update webpage.

Alternatively, and only for this week, access a list of hyperlinks to each segment of Week 11 at the new website (to ease the transition)!

A big 'Thank You' to all the moving parts and many people that have enabled the PPMN Blog to metamorphose to Website status!  NO new information will be posted to the Blog after this week (July 10, 2020).

Stay Safe and come join us at https://prairiepest.ca/ !!

Questions or problems accessing the contents of this Weekly Update?  Please e-mail Meghan.Vankosky@canada.ca or Jennifer.Otani@canada.ca.  Past “Weekly Updates” can be accessed on our Weekly Update page.

We're moving!

The Prairie Pest Monitoring Network is excited to announce we have moved to our fresh new website (with a lot of help from our friends)! www.prairiepest.ca 

Important - Re-Subscribe to receive our Weekly Updates
Visit our new site and signup to receive the timely insect pest information you’ve come to expect from us, as well as the Insect of the Week, delivered to your inbox. [Due to Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation and just plain good manners, we cannot copy your subscription to the Blog over to our new website.]

Same great information
The new website is organized like the Blog to keep information including monitoring protocols and risk maps easy to find. But, the website is a work in progress so some information might not be available there yet. Rest assured, the PPMN Blog will stick around so you can look through our past posts and find other information; however, no new information will be posted there after this week (July 10, 2020).

You made us a success
Thank you for using the Blog since it was launched in 2015! We are able to transition to a website now because the Blog is so popular. The new website overcomes some of the Blog shortcomings (e.g., data storage limits). In the future, we hope to introduce new tools to improve insect pest monitoring and insect pest management. Over the coming months, we will work to add information, pictures and links.

Weekly Update links to the NEW website

Click each topic below to access the entire WEEKLY UPDATE (June 9, 2020 for Week 11) over at the NEW WEBSITE!

• Welcome to our new website!
• Weather synopsis
• Predicted wheat midge development
• Predicted grasshopper development
• Bertha armyworm monitoring
• Diamondback moth
• Pea leaf weevil
• Cereal aphid manager
• West nile virus risk
• Scouting charts for canola and flax
• Field heroes
• Provincial insect pest reports
• Crop reports
• Previous posts
• Insect of the Week: Forage grass pests / Dr. Chrystel Olivier
• AND CONGRATULATIONS to the Prairie Crop Disease Monitoring Network on their new Blog!

Insect Pest of the Week and the Entomologists that Study Them (July 6): Forage Grass Pests / Feature entomologist: Chrystel Olivier

This week’s Insect of the Week feature crop is forage grasses: common Prairie plants know to be robust, adaptive, and tolerant to grazing. Our feature entomologist this week is Chrystel Olivier.

Crested wheatgrass cc by 2.0 Matt Lavin

Note: 

This year, we're doing things a bit differently for our Insect of the Week. Instead of focussing on a single insect (pest or natural enemy), we're looking at it from a crop perspective. Each week, we'll pick a crop and list the insects that attack it along with additional helpful information. The insect list is based on the information found in the Field Crop and Forage Pests and their Natural Enemies in Western Canada: Identification and Management field guide. The field guide offers information describing lifecycle, damage description, monitoring/scouting strategies, economic thresholds (where available) and control options) for each economic pest.

 

In addition to an Insect of the Week, we'll also feature one of the entomologists that helps support the PPMN, either directly or indirectly.