2017
Improving and Reducing Costs for Control for Caterpillar Pests
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Contributor/Checkoff:
North Carolina Soybean Producers Association
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Biotic stressCrop protectionField management Pest
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Dominic Reisig, North Carolina State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
17-071
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
North Carolina Soybean Producers Association
$30,805
Institution Funded:
North Carolina State University
$30,805
Brief Project Summary:

Caterpillar pests cause more losses to North Carolina growers than they may realize. Management of these pests is threatened due to increasing insecticide resistance. This project seeks to begin to understand the nature of this resistance. Research aims to begin to assess the utility of the corn earworm adult vial assay test to predict pyrethroid resistance in North Carolina soybean, to see if pyrethroid resistance in corn earworm is associated with cropping patters in the surrounding landscape and to identify and begin to understand insecticide resistance with multiple modes of action in North Carolina soybean looper.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension agents

Information And Results
Final Project Results

Corn earworm and soybean looper are almost always the most costly insects for North Carolina soybean producers. Losses and costs of control for these two insects during both 2016 and 2017, for example, were around $50 million each year. Insecticide choice one of the most critical steps in pest management. Both of these insects have developed resistance to many insecticides, making insecticide selection difficult. These results will aid grower selection by identifying what insecticides are or are not likely to work for these insects in North Carolina soybeans.

The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.