MN Fruit & Vegetable IPM News - Vol. 2, No. 2

As we mentioned in last week’s newsletter, we are currently testing SCM lures at Rosemount, MN for use as an early-season monitoring tool. Although the lures may attract other species related to SCM, so far we have only detected SCM on the traps. To date, the traps with lures have been much more attractive to SCM than the traps without lures (Table 1). As the season progresses, we will be recording data on the SCM infestation and damage that occurs in a snap bean seed treatment trial at Rosemount. Eventually we will determine whether or not a relationship exists between trap catch and seed damage.

Female SCM adult on a sticky card

Table 1. Weekly average of SCM on sticky traps with or without lures.
	Avg. number of SCM/trap
Date	Traps with lures	Traps without lures
5/2/05	4.2	1.0
5/9/05	53.4	6.2

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Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison ( hutch002@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Jeanne Ciborowski, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Ag. Resources Management and Development Division, and Suzanne Wold-Burkness ( woldx018@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota

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