Soybean insect pests can reduce yield and quality. Presently, insect pest treatment thresholds for soybean are provided for individual species and information is lacking about the amount of damage that can occur when different densities of different pests occur simultaneously at different stages of soybean development. Insect pests can frequently be present as an economically damaging complex in Alabama in August and earlier in Southern Alabama. Typically, these complexes include both foliage feeders (worms, beetles and grasshoppers) and pod feeders (soybean pod worms, bean leaf beetles and stink bugs). Young seeds can be deformed, undersize or aborted, whereas older seed will be discolored...
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