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Texas High Plains Cotton: Hot and Dry, Thrips Still Increasing – Podcast June 5, 2020 By Blayne Reed, Texas AgriLife Extension County Agent for Hale, Swisher, and Floyd Counties June cotton fighting its way through heat, wind, blowing sand and thrips. Photo: Seth Byrd, OSU Cotton Specialist Rain critical, dryland in peril, thrips very high in places like Tulia, a few cotton aphids starting, pillbugs and other things in no-till or minimum till with heavy cover.
Lesser cornstalk borer in peanuts. Photo: University of Georgia I got reports of tobacco budworm and lesser cornstalk borer (LCB) infestations in peanut this week. Neither of these is unexpected, but they are good reminders that we need to be scouting fields and managing insects wisely. Foliage feeding caterpillars and LCB can be found in peanut fields every year, but LCB will only be a serious problem later in the season when hot, dry conditions persist.
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