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Figure 2. Asiatic garden beetle feeding starts on the leaf edges and moves inward, resembling other leaf eating pests.

Asiatic Garden Beetle Continues to Threaten Pockets of Cotton Production

The Asiatic garden beetle (AGB) continues to cause problems in cotton this growing season. AGB is an annual white grub species, meaning it completes its life cycle within one year. The…

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Update on Defoliation Conditions

September has not been kind to much of the cotton in North Carolina with rain, cloudy days and cools spells. Also much of the cotton is top crop heavy and was not mature enough to take advantage of…

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Defoliation: Week of October 10th

Keith Edmisten & Guy CollinsExtension Cotton SpecialistsIf there is anything we can count on weather-wise in North Carolina, it is the Indian summer that usually occurs in the second week of October.…